Roy

Must read for anyone interested in AI ethics

Revisado: 11-22-24

This is not your spaceships-and-lasers sci-fi. Early Adopter is smart, thoughtful fiction, with short stories that would fit right in amongst the collections of Ted Chiang and other greats. Each story focuses around a central idea, and through brilliant worldbuilding (and occasionally really fun wordplay), gives it form -- like a clay city rising from dirt -- before being wiped away by explosive twists, setting the stage for the next. It's both a letter of admiration and a lucid warning for what happens when technology outruns the social frameworks that humans have to analyze it.

Both of the voice actors killed it here, and manage to make the characters feel warm, or despondent, or downright filthy, and bring the stories to life. Finishing every story feels like the end of a movie -- sunk deep in a squeaky chair, un-immersing, as the credits roll.

This is sci-fi that presents familiar ideas with angles that I've never seen written about anywhere else.
This is sci-fi that makes you pace around the room after you read it.
This is sci-fi that I want to geek out about to my friends, and listen to podcasts about, discussing.

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