If you haven’t watched a YouTube video where an AI predicts the next thousand years, you ought to, at least to prepare you for the first half of this novel. This is an adventure in scientific prediction, a treatise on every moral quandary predicted by Science Fiction in the last hundred years. It starts with […]
“Jewel in the Lotus” by David Barrett-Murrer
A word about the length of a book. While components such as the amount of descriptive detail help to determine how many words a book should have, the main factor is the complexity of the ideas and actions to be covered. In Sci-Fi especially, the key element is the sophistication of the science. If the […]
“Attack on Boredom” by L. B. Spillers
These short stories are more tightly interwoven than in most works of this genre. They are thematically linked, being multiple well-considered examples of the possibilities involved in having our lives taken over by Artificial Intelligence, alien overseers, gods or the plain old economic elite we’ve always had. Likewise, the general tone of the book is […]