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Interesting and exciting start! Excited to keep reading more

Def more mystery and thriller than I was expecting. Not bad overall.. a lot of development and character building.

‘Air-conditioning made the humidity and heat of—Southeast Asia only barely tolerable. He couldn’t understand how—people had ever lived in this region without it—His knack was translating the abstractions of math into concrete movements that the body had evolved to process. Instead of forcing humans to learn like a Turing machine—he turned machine-learning math into choreography so that the body could think by doing’

Holy shit the amount of science in this is amazing

Already feels so relevant to today. With ai and all the fake shit out there, this book is looking into the disappearance of an individual and the individuals hiding in dark corners co trolling the narratives with their unique branding of ai tech..

Upon starting this, I found the technical jargon overwhelming and I'm a techie. But the story got interesting. The time between starting & finishing is due to loss in my personal life and not a reflection of the book. I just needed something lighter and easier...hence, manga & comics. I'm shocked by the turn the story has taken and look forward to the conclusion.

DNF - I’ve really struggled with this one, I might try it again at a later date but I’m making a conscious decision to not push myself through books where I’m really not enjoying them or interested and sadly, this just isn’t for me.

*I was kindly gifted an arc copy by the publisher.

Wait, I’m loving this so far…

DNF at 83% the reader is not great (mispronunciations and weird timing) and the story has fallen apart.

Wait… sunset over an ocean and the MC is going to a Carolina state? I think that would be better accomplished in the west where… you know… the sun sets… am I overthinking this? Lmao

(typo) Piers and Elli sat up, riveted.

(typo)…used for Julia’s tax filings and spreadsheet.
…
“Julia has made a lot more money than I, or the IRS, was aware….”

Definitely written by a man *facepalm*

‘—she picked up two massive dead moths—the size of small birds—Disoriented by the bright bulbs, they had died—morpho drone was now kept aloft by two pairs of fluttering wings. The flapping appendages, modified from the carbon-fibre propellers, were covered by the wings of the dead moths glued on—The artificial creature fluttered—like the thousands of other giant and hairy moths in the damp, sweltering evening air.’

I CANT PUT THIS DOWN

A lot of AI and code related terms so far, but im intrigued

Hard time following this one

Loving this so much.

This has the potential to become a new favorite considering the themes. Plus the title is a line from a Poe poem and we all know how I feel about Edgar Allan Poe.

Sometimes I think ken liu is truly too smart for me. But I love it

“I’m not going to pretend I know how you feel. I wish the world were better than it is. I just want you to know that I’m really glad you’re here.”

They say that the past is gone forever, that you can’t go back. But every living thing leaves a ripple in Heraclitus’s river, an expanding wave front that fades but never disappears. Just by living, you’ve already changed the universe forever.

not too bad so far actually

going in with low expectations, fingers crossed

first few pages of this made me question if i even know english at all. this book needs a glossary asap

Pausing for a minute for the CtB deadline.

Some "machine assisted" developers were so unfamiliar with hardware that they wouldn't have been able to identify the chips that they supposedly wrote software for; their knowledge was more in the realm of knowing how to ask machines to do things than in knowing how to do those things themselves."

It's absolutely crazy how near -future the tech in this book feels. Could be us in 20 years or less.

This is a very near -future sci-fi story, and a lot of it is believable. It's kind of eerie.

Julia is definitely an interesting character with a lot of potential. I really hope the author builds on that, because right now we just have"she's really smart and happens to know things" but none of the back story they've provided explains her cyber background.

Eternally mortified that I keep mixing up his work with Ted Chiang's. Maybe reading this will help!

Tallahassee jump scare!