- Les Thanatonautes
"Les Thanatonautes" (English: "The Thanatonauts") is a 1994
science fiction novel by French writerBernard Werber . The book deals with the search forafterlife ."Les Thanatonautes" is first in a five-part series. Together with "L'Empire des anges" ("The Empire of Angels", 2000) and "Nous les dieux" ("We the Gods", 2004), it makes up the "Les Thanatonautes" trilogy. "Nous les dieux", together with "Le souffle des dieux" ("The Blow of the Gods", 2005) and "Le mystère des dieux" ("The Mystery of the Gods", to be published in 2007), make up the "Nous les dieux" trilogy.
The book, which one could classify as philosophic science fiction (with a hint of fantasy), takes us on a voyage to the last unexplored continent, death. The term "thanatonaute" is derived from "thanatologie", comes from the Greek god of death
Thanatos and "nautis" (navigateur) and thus signifies "navigator of death" or "explorer of death".The novel tells the story of a researcher Michael Pinson and his friend Raoul Razorbak who go explore the Ultimate Continent (called "New Australia"): the continent of death. This adventure takes us across the different zones of the continent of the dead to the famous light. In doing these explorations the thanatonautes voluntarily risk their lives to discover the mysteries of death.
The book is scattered regularly with a number of different sacred texts drawn from
mythology ,religion , andcosmogony from all over the world. And it is astonishing to see that each of these points of view resemble each other and tell the same story just with different words and symbols.ee also
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