Ventus
After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike artificial intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy.On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs -- the godlike Winds – which shaped and guarded its transformation, have...
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After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike artificial intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy.On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs -- the godlike Winds – which shaped and guarded its transformation, have fallen silent. Calandria May is sent down to the surface where she quickly finds that an extension of the rogue AI, a cyborg called Armiger, has planted a strange and powerful device in a young man named Jordan Mason. Jordan has visions. He is desperate to find their meaning and source -- desperate enough to risk awakening the Winds, perhaps invoking the power that can destroy technology to protect the environment they created. Ventus is an epic journey across a fascinating planet with two big mysteries -- why have the Winds fallen silent? And is Armiger, or Jordan, carrying a Resurrection Seed?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780812576351 (0812576357)
ASIN: 812576357
Publish date: November 19th 2001
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Pages no: 672
Edition language: English
This book is available as a free download from the author's website! http://www.kschroeder.com/from his site:Ventus is a novel of information apocalypse set in the far future. For a thousand years the sovereign Winds have maintained the delicate ecological balance of the terraformed planet Ventus. N...
Ventus suffers from poor editing. This is all the more disappointing because it could have been wonderful rather than merely good. The editing problems range from minor (repeated descriptors, sentences that should be rearranged, action discontinuity) to major (without giving too much away, I'll just...