TEXT Í The Whims of Creation Õ Simon Hawke
Ies unicorns dwarves and dragons As they search for answers a young misfit named Ulysses st The concepts in this book between the AI the ship itself and the extrapolations of automation are well ahead of their time As we become 1 reliant on machines 2 capable of developing sophisticated AI 3 lazy intellectually and physically I think that our society might have to face some issues like the ones addressed here We may not Those things might happen slowly enough that we adapt well to them or we might just blow ourselves up Even if our species never falls into a place where SPOILER ALERT we need an overactive AI forcing us to compete in a uest simulation it was a fun concept to play with The ending was pretty cheesy why I gave it a liked it rating and sort of took the stakes away from whatever stakes the characters were playing against almost akin to an it was all a dream ending but the book was still a fun read
Simon Hawke Õ The Whims of Creation EPUB
The Whims of CreationThe inhabitants of the artificial world called The Agamemnon are suddenly overrun with fair I keep coming back to this book for some reason and have read it several times over the yearsIt’s an interesting look into the life of people on a generation ship and it’s a lot of fun mixed in with the social aspectsI consider it one of my guilty pleasures along with Strada by Terry Prachette