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Indlæser... Silently and Very Fast (udgave 2012)af Catherynne M. Valente
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. An artificial intelligence coming of age as a symbiote to a member of the family were it began as a house control monitor, and was passed from parent to child until if finds itself in a sibling wondering what happened to it's last host. Questions about what is life, awareness, identity, inheritance, and love. This is actually my second time reading this story and it's just as good this time as the first. Let me back up. This Hugo winner for best novella a few years ago may not have taken the world by storm, but Valente herself has been taking a lot of us that way. You know. Blown away. She has a fantastic talent with words, always lyrical, rife with ideas, and most importantly, beautiful. This particular story starts with a parable about Inanna and Ereshkigal and Tammuz and draws it right into a tale of raising an AI from humble house beginnings to childhood to adulthood, and far beyond. It also seamlessly incorporates sleeping beauty, legends of many monomyths, and incorporates it into sexuality, mourning, and the nature of intelligence (and how humans failed the Turing test). :) And believe it or not, Valente does this magically. It rolls off the page with such beauty and easy flow, we can hardly believe we're being riddled with myth, deep thought, and hard-SF. We come away from it, FEELING something grand. :) Do I recommend this? HELL YEAH. It encapsulates everything high-brow, magical, poetical, and lovely. This is literature AS hard-SF. :) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Fantastist Catherynne M. Valente takes on the folklore of artificial intelligence in this brand new, original novella of technology, identity, and an uncertain mechanized future. Neva is dreaming. But she is not alone. A mysterious machine entity called Elefsis haunts her and the members of her family, back through the generations to her great-great grandmother'a gifted computer programmer who changed the world. Together Neva and Elefsis navigate their history and their future, an uneasy, unwilling symbiote. But what they discover in their dreamworld might change them forever . . . No library descriptions found. |
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But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.
This is, quite simply, beautiful. It is the breaking of myth and story to find the shards and slivers that will explain the making of a new life, a new family, and maybe a new world. Parts of it are profoundly uncomfortable, but such is the life we live. (I will go ahead and say trigger warnings for
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_10_11/
I am not going to say another blessed word, because it's not worth spoiling. Don't read the blurb. Don't read any more reviews. Just go read this.
Reviewed 3/1/2016
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2/29/16: This, on the other hand, was quite delicious. Maybe there is hope for 2016 yet. Review to come. ( )