![]() I’d argue, then, that it makes a great deal of thematic sense for the final book to have a vested interest in exploring the problem of rigid certainties and inflexible beliefs as a stumbling block on the path to peace.Īir Logic is, ultimately, a book about extremism: how it roots and spreads, how to dismantle it, how to recover from it. Air logic as it has been represented throughout the series is implacable and the people gifted with it are as well, possessors of rigid internal structures of moral certainty. ![]() Finding that third path isn’t a comfortable task. Though the attempt was foiled, the larger problem of an active resistance in Shaftal to peace with the Sainnites remains unsolved: people in the wind, plotting the overthrow of the G’deon they consider false for her attempt to close out the brutalities of war without seeking vengeance.Īs we’ve discussed previously, Marks’s novels argue that progress is only possible if people are able and willing to change-but also to forgive, to allow room for growth and rehabilitation, all at the same time. ![]() In the previous volume, an assassination attempt was made on Karis’s government and her person. ![]() Just shy of eighteen years since the publication of Marks’ first Elemental Logic novel, the story of Shaftal-of Karis and Zanja and Emil, their spouses and children and loved ones-reaches its conclusion in Air Logic. ![]()
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