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Silently and Very Fast has been nominated for a Nebula award, and it deserves it and more.
I finished this late last night, and spent the last pages and the following 30 minutes in tears. The story is moving, it is terrible, it’s beautiful and sad. It is so many things. It is so big.
Elefsis is aware, it is a being. It lives in a virtual dreamworld with successive generations of a remarkable family, and with each generation Elefsis is the same but is not. It is a child that never grows up and has ...more
I finished this late last night, and spent the last pages and the following 30 minutes in tears. The story is moving, it is terrible, it’s beautiful and sad. It is so many things. It is so big.
Elefsis is aware, it is a being. It lives in a virtual dreamworld with successive generations of a remarkable family, and with each generation Elefsis is the same but is not. It is a child that never grows up and has ...more
I'm so glad this short book/novella was recommended as a group read in one of my GR groups. I never would have found this book or this author otherwise.
I'm absolutely amazed by this book. Writing about artificial intelligence is hard. How do you make a computer system intelligible enough to be readable, but foreign enough to be fascinating and worth reading? Valente manages to walk the line elegantly and trembling with emotion. She asks the hard questions--what does it mean to be alive? What's ...more
I'm absolutely amazed by this book. Writing about artificial intelligence is hard. How do you make a computer system intelligible enough to be readable, but foreign enough to be fascinating and worth reading? Valente manages to walk the line elegantly and trembling with emotion. She asks the hard questions--what does it mean to be alive? What's ...more
An absolutely amazing and gorgeously written work. Told from the perspective of an AI as it comes into itself as a being, this book explores what it means to dream, to feel, to just be. Elefsis describes herself and her world through the use of the dreamscape, metaphors and stories. She is the other and yet wholly herself. Just an incredibly stunning book that sticks with the reader long after the last page is turned.
I didn't really get it. But I liked it.
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2.5 stars.
Sep 15, 2012
Xiri
marked it as to-read
Mar 08, 2013
Jayalalita devi dasi
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Apr 22, 2013
Dan's
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Sep 01, 2014
Steph
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Nick
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