Transdimensional Tea

A Tale of Myths, Megastructures & Meandering Moons

De: R.J. Kamaladasa

Narrado por: LIZ MAY BRICE

Far into humanity's distant future, Naga, a whimsical superintelligent being, finds herself reborn. Her trusty companion Apollo – a quantum quintessence with an uncanny ability to predict the future - helps her throw a birthday party of cosmic proportions.

Naga's children – Tartarus, Gaia, Iapetus and Mnemosyne – have mixed feelings about their newly reborn mother and about each other. Remembering their own trials and tribunals, they rediscover themselves and take a stab at understanding consciousnesses, complexity and what it means to be alive.

This capricious journey merges mythology, philosophy, and modern scientific understanding with a dash of humor, existential dread and the prospect of what humanity may eventually leave behind.

©2024 R.J. Kamaladasa (P)2024 R.J. Kamaladasa

Loved listening and teasing out new nuances on repeated readings

I’ve read this as the print version as well, and really appreciated the new nuances I picked up in this format. There are so many layers to explore in this story. Liz did a wonderful job bringing the characters to life. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Layers of meaning

It seems like almost every sentence had a dual meaning, which I enjoyed. I learned a lot while listening to this book and found myself researching concepts that courced through it. At the end of the book, I realized that I have to listen to it again to get even more of the references I had missed the first time.

That said the book still read like a light-reader; still had playfulness and humor.

You can’t choose your family, but you should choose this book.

I decided to give this little gem a listen after watching the author’s videos on YouTube. What I found was a story that was both familiar and foreign to me.

On the familiar side you have the usual dynamic of a family gathering, siblings squabbling, resentments regarding the family enterprise, and continuing love even in the face of setbacks and bad behavior.

On the foreign side there is Buddhist philosophy, Economic theory, Greek mythology, and so so so much science. This cornucopia of factual information could tickle even the most educated of minds.

The narration of this audiobook is evocative and found myself easily lost in the universe that the MegaStructure inhabits.