Macroscope

By: Piers Anthony

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Synopsis: EXISTENCE IS FULL OF A NUMBER OF THINGS... many of them wondrous indeed--and those are the things of this soaring novel. First among them is the Macroscope--a doorway that leads to all time and all space, and confronts the four who dare enter it with challenges mankind has never dreamed of. And perhaps most wondrous of all in the crowded, adventurous universe of this novel, a boy becomes a man, a spirited girl achieves womanhood; a man's deepest beliefs are vindicated; and a woman finds a purpose in being.... breakthrough! Near the end of the 20th century occurred the most epochal scientific breakthrough in the history of man: the discovery of the macroscope. In resolving and making coherent the information carried on macrons, it brought the entire universe within man's range of vision, revealing levels of technology vastly beyond anything dreamed of by man. But there was peril--when men attempted to unlock the secrets of the macroscope, it destroyed the minds of the best of them....