Implied Spaces (Singularity)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (768 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597801518 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmesssa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every t
From Booklist Computer scientist turned wandering swords-man Aristide travels the accidental spaces in the artificial universes of a postsingularity existence in which memory backups are standard and a matrioshka cluster of computers runs the worlds’ workings. Between the implications of living in a world in which death is a minor inconvenience but the loss of time can change relationships forever, and the implications of the theory upon which the yarn’s impending doom depends (a take on the nested multiple universe concept) and the ways in which different experiences can change a person, even starting from exactly the same baseline, Implied Spaces is a thoughtful work of world building and an engaging mystery. --Regina S
WJW has blown me away again!! I have only recently discovered WJW quite by accident but I have not enjoyed reading anything as much as his work. Pocket universes, eleven orbitting supercomputers, resurrection, wormholes as weapons. How does he do it? I've been hooked since reading Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind, The Boolean Gate, and now Implied Spaces. He doesn't just write stories, he's a world builder like I've never exper. "SF equivalent of "If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium"" according to Guy Ivie. I've been a fan of Mr. Williams ever since discovering "Voice of the Whirlwind," but "Implied Spaces" goes a long way toward making me stop looking for his books in the future. Too reminiscent of "Aristoi" in a number of places but not done as well; too many different SF tropes (including borrowing an idea from John Barnes' "Meme Wars" stories) that left me feeling like I was on a whirlwind bus tour. one of the best SF books in recent years J. Strout My wife picked up this book for me at the library on a whim, and I read it with some skepticism (the cover art is a bit cheesy). But I was quickly hooked -- this is a wonderful book! It starts out with the appearance of a simple swashbuckling fantasy novel, but there are very early hints dropped that all is not as it seems. As you get further into the story, you see that it is not fantasy at all, bu
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