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It starts with an assassin, who (IIRC) has no memories before a certain point. It ends with a battle of wits on a solar mining platform slowly descending towards the sun and certain death. There's bits of talk about circular theories of society, a bit of time travel, and the main character learns to use his sense in reverse (projecting images from his eyes, for instance).

Anyone ID this? The name is on the tip of my tongue, but I can't quite place it.

Date: 2007-11-01 09:35 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] drplokta
Sounds rather like The Golden Age by John C Wright, which has several (but not all) of those elements.

Date: 2007-11-01 09:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pisica.livejournal.com
If no one gets it you can try [livejournal.com profile] whatwasthatbook.

Date: 2007-11-01 10:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fjm.livejournal.com
Possibly Asimov's The Currents of Space (1952)

Date: 2007-11-01 11:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gardener.livejournal.com
He wrote a number of other novels -- a list is here -- but none of them had the same impact as The Paradox Men. (The only other novel on the list that I know I've read, because I have a copy of it, is The Ring of Ritornel, and I can't recall a thing about it.)

Date: 2007-11-01 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com
The odd part is that it's clearly not Brin's Sundiver, but the description fits in a number of ways

Date: 2007-11-01 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sterlingspider.livejournal.com
You seem to have gotten it, but I was reminded of a Stanislaw Lem Book, I can't remember the name offhand (Fiasco maybe?), but its probably worth reading all of them to figure it out for yourself anyway :)

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