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It's a novel, albeit a short one (191 pages in the edition I read). —Slicing (talk) 08:23, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's been years since I've read this story, but it seems to me that this article misses the most crucial part of the story. They are stuck orbiting the dead star, essentially, waiting to die. They have nothing to do, so they keep returning to this virtual reality to escape their actual reality. Each time they go into the virtual world, which is a kind of mutually generated world, no one remembers who they actually are until they are back out. But, as they keep doing this to escape their reality, they start to realize that the Virtual World is becoming increasingly hellish, reflecting the misery of their actual situation. Needless to say, this is an assertion on the nature of existence, and reincarnation. But that comment may constitute original research.  ;) --Jcordone (talk) 03:37, 16 August 2014 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcordone (talk • contribs) 01:30, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Theology

An important aspect of this book is its theology. In the simulated reality God has been discovered to really exist and can be communicated with. In the ending of the novel there is a hint that this invented theology might be true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.236.238.89 (talk) 22:58, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]