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Moonbound
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
It is eleven thousand years from now . . . A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilization, a sentient, record-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now one of my favorite books
- De Leif Hansen en 07-06-24
- Moonbound
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
Now one of my favorite books
Revisado: 07-06-24
It's been a while since I've had the feeling of "I hope this never ends" while coming towards the end of the book. Thankfully, it ended with the great human question: what comes next. And so I have an itch of a hope that we shall one day return and likely find out more about the storm machines.
I love books that somehow believably intermingle all the genres, science fiction and fantasy, comedy and mystery, adventure and even a hint of romance.
I love love love this book and hope to meet the author some day... probably in his beloved SF.
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Klara and the Sun
- A Novel
- De: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrado por: Sura Siu
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 10,240
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,762
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8,731
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Worth Having Waited For!
- De otherdeb en 03-04-21
- Klara and the Sun
- A Novel
- De: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrado por: Sura Siu
Beautiful, deeply moving and thought provoking.
Revisado: 03-11-24
I just loved this book. Everything was soaked in empathy and sun light. And I loved how no easy answers are given, many mysteries remain, keeping the story alive. I'll be thinking about Klara for quite some time, especially as we humans continue our dance with AI.
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Feed
- De: M. T. Anderson
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 927
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 923
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it, plain and simple
- De Tom en 07-11-10
- Feed
- De: M. T. Anderson
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
May it not be so
Revisado: 05-23-17
A thought provoking story of which the main plot device, the implanted Feed, we all know to be an already existing reality in our daily lives. Maybe they're not implanted yet -though just last month Musk & Zuck announced plans to create similar devices as a way of increasing humanity's chance of evolutionary survivall -joining the AI we are creating vs. our becoming absolute. However, i see these devices as likely becoming a reality much earlier than the era this story takes place in.
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I liked the first 1/2 more than the second, and I'm not sure if that's because it got so serious (dealing with important issues of social, economic & environmental injustice, self-centeredness vs growing in compassion, mortality, etc.) or because it took itself too seriously without giving me more breaks and glimpses into the future world the story takes place in. Or maybe its just that it made me more aware of my own shadows, and not with the most merciful / optimistic ending. Hard lessons life does give.
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