The chapters are broken by two articles/essays; one written by a main character and the other by an important secondary character. speed and noticed nothing off-putting besides the compulsion to look up how characters' names were spelled. Ray Nayler has taken on the challenge of a near future that's less certain than ever, and made it gleam - not only with computer terminals and sentry drones (we love those, sure) but also polished coral and cephalopod eyes. The little details were carefully crafted, like the simple description of a café in Astrakhan where the owner “made Turkish coffee so thick a water buffalo would float in it.

That all of them were, in fact, bound together so tightly that they formed a single entity, incapable of functioning--incapable of surviving--without all of its interlocking parts in place. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. My point is, you can’t just drop these names in there and then apparently not think about how we got to a point where Ho Chi Minh City is now an autonomous rich af trade zone.Rustem is a hacker in the former Soviet Union whose work for hire involves subverting the AI which carry out the bidding of the transnational tech corporations. I found the audio production excellent, as well, with Eunice Wong skillfully maneuvering tricky names and technical jargon with her clear voice. Throughout the story, we are shown snippets of a controversial nonfiction book which Ha, the MC, was infamous for writing.

An unfortunate side-effect of this, however, was that I kept finding myself wanting to love the book more than I actually did, despite coming away with a sense that I would greatly enjoy having a conversation with the author. Evrim, the AI, got his/her/its name from Turkish and it means evolution as it was revealed in the book later. Swap “lion” for “octopus” and you have the philosophical challenge at the heart of this deeply interesting work of science fiction. Sabía en parte de lo que son capaces los pulpos unos seres increíbles que muchos no sabréis que son uno de los seres más inteligentes y llenos de recursos del mundo.Readers also will feel for the autonomous AI Evrim, who has been exiled to the remote Con Dao Archipelago both to help with the work there and to protect him from violence taking place against AIs as possible competitors to homo sapiens. It was the indifference of the world—the indifference of the boy I loved to me, the indifference of the guards to the suffering of the people in the cages, the indifference of all of it, that made me crazy. I want to help my readers imagine how we might speak across an almost unbridgeable gap of differences, and end forever the loneliness of our species—and our own loneliness. It was easier to pretend that Altantsetseg was an individual, that all of her choices were her own, than to admit that Altantsetseg was a part of them.

Also, there's a bit of time-switching between characters, so that may be disorienting, but I promise that the story manages to fit together decently.The octopuses, meanwhile, have intelligence which is totally reframed by their different biology, origins, needs, and perceptions. Rumours of sea monsters off the shores of an archipelago in Vietnam have attracted the attention of a tech giant specialising in AI, Dianima, which has bought and sealed off the islands. The quotes at the beginning of the chapters (which come from the main character's book) were profound and were a big takeaway for me.

Uno de nuestros protagonistas, Ha, investiga a los pulpos de Con Dao, se vuelve rápidamente obvio que ya pueden comunicarse, que tienen un lenguaje simbólico junto un uso primitivo pero ya desarrollado de herramientas y una cultura que incluye el cuidado de jóvenes y ancianos. The prose was completely immersive and approachable despite the philosophical, scientific and existential questions of the plot, and the story was fascinating, a blend of exciting genres like sci-fi, mystery, and political intrigue.Whether you're new to Ray Nayler's work or a longtime reader, this book will keep you trying to work through its puzzle-box nature. También hay algunos paralelismos fascinantes con aspectos como la forma en que el operador de drones, Altantsetseg, un curioso personaje usa su flota de drones, pasando por la forma en que la corporación opera en comparación con la propia inteligencia del pulpo. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Minervudóttir-Chan and Ha Nguyen are profoundly flawed thinkers, authors of profoundly flawed books, their perspectives on humanity, consciousness, language not to be trusted. You can feel the rough corals, taste the salty spray, smell the coppery blood of many characters who come to some pretty rough ends.