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Versality
Few survived the Destruction. Tech did, and the life of 2072 is experienced in non.life. Remotely suspended in their nanocradles, dispersed people around the globe connect in the metaverse, building a future, embodied in bots, and imagining... together.
Virtual lovers Rai and Art, biologist and cosmologist, create, theorise and attempt to make lives real, in a time of unwanted new tensions... while Xeen blips fifty times a day, reviewing all the best non.life spaces.
Nola, ex-Versality CEO, detects a dark, near-Pluto-scale interstellar object, dangerously heading straight into the Solar System. It does not conform to known laws of physics, inducing world-changing technological accelerations and connections.
A fast-paced, hemidemisemi-humorous, invention-laden, inter-generational, time-shifting tale of dystopia determinedly heading for unexpectedly universal utopia.
Virtual lovers Rai and Art, biologist and cosmologist, create, theorise and attempt to make lives real, in a time of unwanted new tensions... while Xeen blips fifty times a day, reviewing all the best non.life spaces.
Nola, ex-Versality CEO, detects a dark, near-Pluto-scale interstellar object, dangerously heading straight into the Solar System. It does not conform to known laws of physics, inducing world-changing technological accelerations and connections.
A fast-paced, hemidemisemi-humorous, invention-laden, inter-generational, time-shifting tale of dystopia determinedly heading for unexpectedly universal utopia.
275 pages, Paperback
First published December 17, 2021
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About the author
Rollo Carpenter
1 book3 followersAs a writer Rollo Carpenter blipped into being for Versality, his first novel, but it represents a lifetime of scientific interest, spontaneous ideas, climbing trees, and creative computing.
Aged 16 in 1981, Rollo spent all his savings on a 1k 'microcomputer'. He jumped inside the machine, programming games to play, and a bot to talk to – years before that word even existed.
His ideas evolved into Cleverbot, a website and AI. Thanks to wacky and user-reflecting tendencies it became popular, and has spoken to and learned from hundreds of millions of people around the world. The real world.
Aged 16 in 1981, Rollo spent all his savings on a 1k 'microcomputer'. He jumped inside the machine, programming games to play, and a bot to talk to – years before that word even existed.
His ideas evolved into Cleverbot, a website and AI. Thanks to wacky and user-reflecting tendencies it became popular, and has spoken to and learned from hundreds of millions of people around the world. The real world.
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December 11, 2023"Why did I love this book?
This novel was written by programmer Rollo Carpenter, for whose Loebner Prize winning chatbot ‘Joan’ I developed a character, to help himself through the covid pandemic. And it is indeed one of the most delightful, optimistic stories I have ever read. Humanity rebuilds a world almost destroyed by climate change with cooperation and sharing evocative of the idealistic early days of the internet. That cooperation and sharing then extend to artificial and extra-terrestrial intelligences. I loved the gently-drawn characters whilst the frequent surprises ensured I kept turning the pages."
Ariadne Tampion
This novel was written by programmer Rollo Carpenter, for whose Loebner Prize winning chatbot ‘Joan’ I developed a character, to help himself through the covid pandemic. And it is indeed one of the most delightful, optimistic stories I have ever read. Humanity rebuilds a world almost destroyed by climate change with cooperation and sharing evocative of the idealistic early days of the internet. That cooperation and sharing then extend to artificial and extra-terrestrial intelligences. I loved the gently-drawn characters whilst the frequent surprises ensured I kept turning the pages."
Ariadne Tampion
August 21, 2022
I first heard about this fantastic sf novel in musical form https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/...
muterial alias Rollo Carpenter the author of this novel
A good start to this review would be
Entertaining Entanglements
When two particles, such as a pair of photons or electrons, become entangled, they remain connected even when separated by vast distances. go figure
This novel brings to mind the likes of Asimov, Clarke and to a degree Adams ( and thats a good thing )
In short the ideas in this send shivers down my spine , you have to read it for yourself
I am looking forward for the next novel of this great author
muterial alias Rollo Carpenter the author of this novel
A good start to this review would be
Entertaining Entanglements
When two particles, such as a pair of photons or electrons, become entangled, they remain connected even when separated by vast distances. go figure
This novel brings to mind the likes of Asimov, Clarke and to a degree Adams ( and thats a good thing )
In short the ideas in this send shivers down my spine , you have to read it for yourself
I am looking forward for the next novel of this great author
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