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Ch 29 a planet that tries to kill you and has a consciousness - Solaris. A biome that tries to exploit you as a biological niche - Annihilation.

Ch 28 chances Basia or Havelock reunited with Katoa or Miller in the collective alien consciousness? Basia case more poignant…

Ch 28 a tale about first contact like those of island biomes against invasive species. But wider gap. Technology mimicking life as a parallel of alien AI mimicking intelligence and will. What’s the difference except the core of awareness, that concept of soul?

Ch 26 Havelock is a returning character?! From the first book the partner of Miller from Earth.

Nice heart to heart about work life balance.

Naomi as the feminine, Amos as the musculoskeletal, Alex as the relatable everyman in the background.

Trope: Naomi is always resolving problems with smarts and level-headed perseverance. But she’s always being captured and placed in dire straits and frees herself at great physical and mental cost. Not exactly a damsel in distress but like a player on pacifist mode in a violent game - hard mode in shell.

The investigator chapters. Description of what it’s like inhabiting the “mind” of the intelligence that recreates Miller. Explore what it’s like being an artificial intelligence created by the aliens. Concerts of awareness and what constitutes wanting and willing as a motive force. Relevant now that large language models are coming to the fore.

I felt as if I were walking with Destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial.

Above all, the expression “Hitler missed the bus” was unlucky.

A Dark New Year

The Magnetic Mine

The Combat Deepens

The Front in France

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.