← Back to Concept Index
order-of-neverness
An elite institution maintaining thousands of schools, where entry is fiercely competitive and only a fraction of petitioners are accepted to pursue knowledge and power.
1 chapter across 1 book
The Broken God (2017)David Zindell
Chapter 9
This chapter introduces Danlo's arrival and adjustment to the City of Light, Neverness, the spiritual and intellectual center of a highly advanced civilization. It explores the rigorous and competitive process of entering the Order, the elite institution of knowledge and power, while contrasting Danlo's primal, natural instincts with the artificiality and complexity of city life. The chapter also reflects on philosophical views of time and the alienation Danlo feels amid the manufactured beauty and filtered reality of the City.