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Finished this on Monday and as this was the first Doctor Who book i have read i thought it was great.Time_Traveller wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 4:52 pm I am currently reading The Silent Stars Go By by Dan Abnett.
Didn't a guy cause World War 2 over something similar. The blame was misguided though it seems that was the idea he essentially discredited. Either way it is way too late for any change of that sort and even if it did happen then what? A global government?Time_Traveller wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 4:40 pm Yesterday, i had started Adults in the room by Yanis Faroufakis.
The "War in Heaven", a simulated war game, rages between civilisations. Its virtual battles have been fought for decades, and the victors will decide the fate of the digital Hells - torturous artificial afterlives with horrors beyond imagination.
In the Sichultian Enablement, Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit.
As the virtual war threatens to spill into the Real, Y'breq is willing to risk everything for her freedom - but she'll need the Culture, and its help comes at a price. The Culture is going to war with death itself.
By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame. The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into fleshers — true Homo sapiens; Gleisner robots — embodying human minds within machines that interact with the physical world; and polises — supercomputers teeming with intelligent software, containing the direct copies of billions of human personalities now existing only in the virtual reality of the polis. Diaspora is the story of Yatima — a polis being created from random mutations of the Konishi polis base mind seed — and of humankind, Of an astrophysical accident that spurs the thousandfold cloning of the polises. Of the discovery of an alien race and of a kink in time that means humanity — whatever form it takes — will never again be threatened by acts of God.
No but heard about it a lot. Erowind mentioned it here before too.wjfox wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:00 pm Anyone here read this?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/156785
I did. It was ok but not super memorable.wjfox wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:00 pm Anyone here read this?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/156785
By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame. The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into fleshers — true Homo sapiens; Gleisner robots — embodying human minds within machines that interact with the physical world; and polises — supercomputers teeming with intelligent software, containing the direct copies of billions of human personalities now existing only in the virtual reality of the polis. Diaspora is the story of Yatima — a polis being created from random mutations of the Konishi polis base mind seed — and of humankind, Of an astrophysical accident that spurs the thousandfold cloning of the polises. Of the discovery of an alien race and of a kink in time that means humanity — whatever form it takes — will never again be threatened by acts of God.
