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Lädt ... Permutation City: A Novel (Original 1994; 2014. Auflage)von Greg Egan (Autor)
Werk-InformationenCyber-City von Greg Egan (1994)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The ideas are mesmerising, cool, weird. They were the reason I had trouble letting the book go. Be warned, though - the plot and the characters are not much more then vehicles for author's visions. Once you accept that this is a book of ideas, you will have a wild sci-fi ride. ( ) whew. it's a lot easier now, to extrapolate the world this book invents and then extend it outward as it develops, than it was in 1994 when Egan wrote it, so it's quite a feat. very exciting for its futurist ideas, but it's all hard science, not so much of a novel involving like characters, events, and stuff. still, a great read on its own terms and a total sf classic. Yeah, good scientific speculations, some very good philosophical dilemmas, but no story, no tension or action, no characters (just names talking to each other, but with nothing to set them apart as personalities), lame and dry writing... in short, extremely boring. I actually "did not like it", the extra star is for the speculations I thought myself because of it. En un futuro no muy lejano la inmortalidad parece un hecho factible. La mente de los seres humanos puede cargarse en un sistema informático para producir “copias”, personas virtuales con todos los recuerdos y la identidad intactos. Estas Copias, en nada distintas de los seres originales, pueden interaccionar y, en definitiva, vivir una existencia plena y completa que parece llamada a alcanzar la eternidad. Las Copias solo tienen un punto vulnerable, necesitan que las redes mundiales de ordenadores donde residen sean estables. Paul Durham, obsesionado por la vida artificial y la realidad virtual, ha tenido una visión casi inconcebible, una solución que parece el sueño descabellado de un dios. Durham ofrece a las millonarias Copias un nuevo universo virtual que trasciende el espacio, ell tiempo, la evolución, la naturaleza de la materia y la precaria realidad de la vida en el universo. Sin embargo, la eternidad tampoco esta exenta de problemas. Las ideas parecen desbordar las páginas de esta fulgurante novela de Greg Egan, la nueva y extraordinaria gran revelación de la narrativa australiana, un autor dotado de una imaginación apocalíptica y deslumbrante. Easily some of the top sci-fi I've read. Egan manages to juggle a plethora of inspiring ideas alongside a cast of varied and really compelling characters. Echoes of Berkeley, Leibniz, Hegel, and Nietzsche in the speculations (my reading) plus Von Neumann and Searle (explicitly stated). Egan's a really impressive writer. Any worries I had about this being at the level of The Matrix or Rick and Morty or Black Mirror were completely unmitigated. This book lives leagues and leagues above those. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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What happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self? A life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which you're accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you'd expect. Life is just electronic code. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting themselves down. You also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an Autoverse addict. She spends every waking minute with the cellular automaton known as the Autoverse, a world that lives by the mathematical "laws of physics."Paul makes Maria an offer to design and drop a seed into the Autoverse that will allow her to indulge in her obsession. There is, however, one catch: you can no longer terminate, bail out, and remove yourself. You will never be your normal flesh-and-blood life again. The question then becomes: Is this what she really wants? Is this what we really want? From the brilliant mind of Greg Egan, "Permutation City," first published in 1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or is the Copy of you the real you? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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