De Umbris Idearum (short story)

was the fourteenth and final story in the anthology Burning with Optimism's Flames. It was written by Philip Purser-Hallard. It heavily featured the Remote and the character Imogen Tantry from the Bernice Summerfield short story Predating the Predators.
== Publisher's summary ==
Wailing's Lace, 2621: The Pope's xenotheologian, Monsignora Tantry, investigates disturbing reports of a force disrupting the delicate balance of religious politics in the habitat – a cult known only as the Remote...
California, 2012: Concerned by the behaviour of one of his students, Father Gerard Evangelista attends a sinister party at the Theatre of Memory – a party which is also, in a very real sense, a revival meeting.
London, 1584: The excommunicated heretic Giordano Bruno's sorcerous experiments yield some surprising results, and the discovery that he holds the Church’s very future in his hands.
The Eleven-Day Empire: Father Self of Faction Paradox sets his alarm clock, and considers an intervention which will touch the lives of three priests – and, incidentally, shape a millennium of history.
== Summary ==
to be added
== Characters ==
* Monsignora Imogen Tantry
* Father Jakob Naguib
* Gerard Evangelista
* Giordano Bruno
* Father Self
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Eleven-Day Empire still exists.
* Beatrix II led the Beatrician Crusade against the Mal'akh.
== Notes ==
* Author Philip Purser-Hallard previously mentioned Giordano Bruno in his short story A Hundred Words from a Civil War.
== Continuity ==
* Imogen has access to the Collection of Necessary Secrets. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)
* Imogen recalls the "appallingly inhuman terror she faced on Murigen". (PROSE: Predating the Predators) She has learned that the creatures she encountered on Murigen were Mal'akh. (PROSE: The Book of the War et al)
* Imogen Tantry will become Pope Beatrix II. (PROSE: Predating the Predators, Unification Theory, A Hundred Words from a Civil War)
* Brown was taken to Anathema. (PROSE: Interference - Book One)
* Human contact with the Remote has been reported since the late 20th century. (PROSE: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two)
* Father Self appears. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)
* The Pope Beatrix II Memorial Library and Ivan G Ikigikato previously appeared in PROSE: Predating the Predators.
== External links ==
Category:Burning with Optimism's Flames short stories
Category:Stories set in 2621
Category:Stories set in California
Category:Stories set in 2012
Category:Stories set in London
Category:Stories set in 1584
Category:Short stories set in the Eleven-Day Empire
Category:Stories set in the War