“’That’s the heart of the problem. I haven’t lived enough. My character is just the combination of my intellect and my faults. I haven’t had time to become more complex, more interesting. […] I’m not sure if you realize this but without my flaws I’d be pretty dull. You should know that.’” In “A C...
This is a hell of a pessimistic story. It is a story of haves and have-nots, of before the ecological collapse and after, and it argues relentlessly that without at least a bit of material prosperity, there is no such thing as human kindness or decency. We don’t see the world of the “haves” in thi...
1) Powerful, poignant, and deep, Speak has an unusual structure, weaving together six narrative voices that together illuminate a link between the creation of artificial intelligence and the fundamental human yearning for connection. When I started the book its nonlinear format put me off, but it to...
In Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind we get three parallel stories, all of them have something to do with Antonia Uccello, or her father Paolo Uccello, the famous painter. In the past we get to follow Antonia Uccello as she is preparing to a life in a convent. Her father decided that's the best so...
This is a slow starting but ultimately moving “wow!” of a story, set in a dystopian future Manchester with three types of “humans”: humans with a moderate amount of genetic engineering to help them resist social evils like addiction, genetically engineered humans who have been enhanced with implant...
Jayna is a super-intelligent kind-of computer-like person who works for a big company trying to see trends in everything. As she's always analysing stuff she might just find some data that could turn her life (and the world like she knows it) around. In the beginning I liked her mathematical way o...
I received this in a giveaway contest from the publisher.This novel had an interesting idea an the central plot point and it certainly raised some interesting questions along the way. The story is of the late 21st century dystopia set in England where life is heavily regulated by the government and ...
I received this in a giveaway contest from the publisher.This novel had an interesting idea an the central plot point and it certainly raised some interesting questions along the way. The story is of the late 21st century dystopia set in England where life is heavily regulated by the government and ...
Dystopian in the classic sense, A Calculated Life follows an analyst's attempts to understand the world around her and her place in it. The title is a pun representing both her work (her attempts at developing intuition), and her origins. And perhaps even her society, where biology dictates social c...
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