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Zendegi (2010)

von Greg Egan

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"In the near future, journalist Martin Seymour travels to Iran to cover the parliamentary elections. Most would-be opposition candidates are disqualified and the election becomes the non-event the world expects. But shortly afterward a compromising image of a government official captured on a mobile phone triggers a revolutionary movement that overthrows the old theocracy. Nasim Golestani, a young Iranian scientist living in exile in the United States, is hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project--which aims to construct a detailed map of the wiring of the human brain--but when government funding for the project is canceled and a chance comes to return to her homeland, she chooses to head back to Iran. Fifteen years after the revolution, Martin is living in Iran with his wife and young son, while Nasim is in charge of the virtual world known as Zendegi, used by millions of people for entertainment and business. When Zendegi comes under threat from powerful competitors, Nasim draws on her old skills, and data from the now-completed Human Connectome Project, to embark on a program to create more lifelike virtual characters and five the company an unbeatable edge. As controversy grows over the nature and rights of these software characters, tragedy strikes Martin's family. Martin turns to Nasim, seeking a solution that no one else can offer...but Zendegi is about to become a battlefield."--Dust cover flap.… (mehr)
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Frampton must have mistaken Nasim's expression of alarm for some kind of struggle to place her name, because she added helpfully, "You might remember me from such New York Times bestsellers as The Sociobiology of The Simpsons and The Metaphysics of Melrose Place."
"I... don't have much time to read outside my field," Nasim managed diplomatically. ( )
  Jon_Hansen | May 27, 2023 |
(...)

Aside from the science, Egan shows himself a keen observer of humanity. Zendegi is also a book about bias, and Egan is, via Martin Seymour, an honest, soul searching commentator on these matters, with a sensibility for diversity and bigotry seeped in respect for what it means to be human, never pointing fingers, but not flinching away from judgement either. Even though I only mention it at the very end of this review, this bias isn’t some trivial matter: it is at the heart of the entire narrative.

Definitely recommended for Egan fans, and because it is very accessible without being superficial, it’s also recommended as an introduction to his work

Full review on Weighing A Pig Doesn't Fatten It ( )
  bormgans | Jun 28, 2022 |
Unlike typical Egan novels. this one stays not only in the very near future--beginning in 2012-- but very close to reality throughout the book, and is almost entirely set in a non-English setting, namely Iran. The two main SFnal themes are virtual reality and uploading -- or more accurately copying-- the memories and thought patterns of humans. As with his other novels, Egan works very hard to develop his technological speculations as rigorously as possible. But this doesn't begin to happen until nearly halfway into the book. Before that we follow Martin, a journalist embedded in Iran during a new revolution, and Nasim, a Iranian computer scientist, who has returned to her homeland. Martin is our window into Iran and Iranian culture while Nasim is our window into Egan's technological speculation. In this book, the human story, especially Martin's, takes precedence, and is quite moving.

Recommended, especially if you found other Egan books hard to keep up with, and you don't mind the SF, however prominent, taking a back seat. ( )
1 abstimmen ChrisRiesbeck | Feb 6, 2021 |
A really interesting Greg Egan book which makes an *excellent* audiobook. It's set in a post-Iranian reformation Iran, in a world with interesting VR and AI. As an audiobook, it's even better, since it's read by a Persian woman; it's cute how she gets all the Farsi words right and then has trouble with some of the more obscure English words.

Amusingly, it was written in 2009; I was going to fault it for being too "of the minute" if it had been written today. 6 years ago, it was fairly prescient.

Unlike most of my other favorite Egan books, there wasn't much "fundamental science" in this -- at least, I think if IT/tech (my field) as more implementation and engineering and messiness than anything fundamental like general relativity or quantum mechanics.

Another unusual thing about this book -- it has actual characters with personal problems and you end up caring about them as people, watching their motivations evolve, and remain true to their core principles; it's more like "literature" than genre fiction in a lot of ways.

My only criticism of the book is that the end seemed a little rushed, and since Egan doesn't tend to do true sequels, we're never going to see more in this universe.

If someone isn't into sci-fi in general, I'd strongly recommend this book as an introduction. If you're an Egan fan, or a fan of hard sci-fi, it might not be the absolute top book, but it's quite good, and definitely worth reading. ( )
1 abstimmen octal | Jan 1, 2021 |
I assume America in this near future has strapped a jetpack to the continent and blasted off into space. I think it would be less jarring if the story was set in the future democratic North Korea (at least that's just one war away from normalcy). I don't mind the focus heavily shifted from sci-fi to the father-son relationship but the whole socio-political story around it was tiresome and the overall saccharin levels made the premise feel more contrived. Please, more planet consuming AIs, fewer middle-eastern fairy tale markets. ( )
  Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 |
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"In the near future, journalist Martin Seymour travels to Iran to cover the parliamentary elections. Most would-be opposition candidates are disqualified and the election becomes the non-event the world expects. But shortly afterward a compromising image of a government official captured on a mobile phone triggers a revolutionary movement that overthrows the old theocracy. Nasim Golestani, a young Iranian scientist living in exile in the United States, is hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project--which aims to construct a detailed map of the wiring of the human brain--but when government funding for the project is canceled and a chance comes to return to her homeland, she chooses to head back to Iran. Fifteen years after the revolution, Martin is living in Iran with his wife and young son, while Nasim is in charge of the virtual world known as Zendegi, used by millions of people for entertainment and business. When Zendegi comes under threat from powerful competitors, Nasim draws on her old skills, and data from the now-completed Human Connectome Project, to embark on a program to create more lifelike virtual characters and five the company an unbeatable edge. As controversy grows over the nature and rights of these software characters, tragedy strikes Martin's family. Martin turns to Nasim, seeking a solution that no one else can offer...but Zendegi is about to become a battlefield."--Dust cover flap.

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