Slant
by Greg Bear
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Read in May, 2006
SF. It's the future and therapy's on its way to becoming mandatory. Society's divided into high naturals, naturals, untherapieds, and CTRs; then there's the transforms (humans who have elected to change their physiology for aesthetic purposes) and the thinkers (artificial intelligence responsible for guiding entire companies), and the Ruggers (militia members in the Republic of Green Idaho), but now, with a little help from an unlicensed thinker and a band of domestic terrorists, those class sys...more
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This sort of sequel to Queen of Angels is wild near future tale about advanced therapy, nanotech, sex and artificial intelligence. Greg Bear is an amazing hard SF writer who has been at it for many years. There is an amazing non-traditional AI construction that gets revealed at the climax of the novel that blew me away. Queen of Angels is a very different kind of novel to this one, and they don’t have to be read in succession. His book Moving Mars -which I also highly recommend- is also ta...more
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Read in October, 2007
Short version: my first exposure to Greg Bear; seemed a bit tedious (the pacing seemed a bit off -- like in fits and starts); the climax/wrap-up went well but seemed to start too early and fold in on itself, dragging out. Some neat concepts presented and certainly a chilling and plausible future (even if he seems to be beveling the edges of his science a bit (if you know what I mean)).
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Read in May, 2008
This book pulls together a number of threads related to the speed of culture, the way our brains work, and biological computing. Some of his speculations regarding the capacity of the human brain to cope with current data loading are things Ive also been thinking. He just got there 8 years before I did.
In my mind, as provocative in a practical sense, as Stross.
In my mind, as provocative in a practical sense, as Stross.
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!!!!!=====>SPOILER ALERT!!!!<=====!!!!!
A computer made out of dirt gives everybody tourettes. Loved it.
A computer made out of dirt gives everybody tourettes. Loved it.
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