James R Davis

Review for Absolute Ambition: Memoria

Revisado: 04-19-19

This is truly a classic sci-fi narrative, in the vein of the old Rod Serling Twilight Zone. Absolute Ambition: Memoria by David L Van Horne follows Cirrus Stark and his journey to at least in his mind save his planet. All of this is very and appropriately alegoric, the planet Perl is obviously a stand in for our planet earth. On Perl the corporations have taken over, they have taken the old song 16 tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford literally. The inhabitants of Perl have a special energy called vim an energy that naturally transferred in a transcendental method. However the corporations have found way to harness this energy to use in industry. It has created higher standards of living for some but not all. Cirrus’ journey takes him to or lack of a better term take up arms to counteract this perversion of the natural order. As he joins a rebellion called WAVE. However, the path to hell is laden with good intentions as Cirrus Stark all too late is about to find out.
This metaphorical allegory, as stated above is very much preaching the how one must be careful of ones “good” intentions, as they can easily lead to the worst of out comes.
I saw this story to be relating if not purposely at least poignantly, the adage of the guitar string some attribute this to Siddhartha Gautama or The Buddha, “A guitar string that is too tight breaks, and one that is too loose will not play, but exactly in the middle of tightness and looseness it has perfect pitch.” As Cirrus finds out all too late, there are no good guys or bad guys, and it is not about winning but really should be about balance.

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