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Diaspora

De: Greg Egan
Narrado por: Adam Epstein
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Behold the orphan. Born into a world that is not a world. A digital being grown from a mind seed, a genderless cybernetic citizen in a vast network of probes, satellites, and servers knitting the Solar System into one scape, from the outer planets to the fiery surface of the Sun. Since the Introdus in the 21st century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software.

Others opted for gleisners: Disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contact with the physical world of force and friction. Many of these have left the Solar System forever in fusion drive starships.

And there are the holdouts. The fleshers left behind in the muck and jungle of Earth - some devolved into dream-apes; others cavorting in the seas or the air; while the statics and bridges try to shape out a roughly human destiny.

But the complacency of the citizens is shattered when an unforeseen disaster ravages the fleshers, and reveals the possibility that the polises themselves might be at risk from bizarre astrophysical processes that seem to violate fundamental laws of nature. The Orphan joins a group of citizens and flesher refugees in a search for the knowledge that will guarantee their safety - a search that puts them on the trail of the ancient and elusive Transmuters, who have the power to reshape subatomic particles, and to cross into the macrocosmos, where the universe we know is nothing but a speck in the higher-dimensional vacuum.

©2013 Greg Egan (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Ciencia Ficción Ciencia Ficción Dura Ficción Sistema solar Sincero

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It's the late 30th century, and mankind has splintered into diverse beings: the human fleshers, the Gleisner robots, and the artificially intelligent polises. Polis orphan Yatima has traveled back to Earth as an interstellar disaster is about to destroy the planet, beginning a monumental struggle for survival. Greg Egan explores issues of human identity in a future world. It's a heady concept that is grounded by Adam Epstein, whose sober and clear-headed approach - as well as his judicious use of accents to delineate the characters - makes Diaspora a fascinating exploration of human existence.
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explores post singularity humanity presenting numerous interesting possibilities on ways of existing and the potential for life in other universes

opens your mind to new areas of exploration

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Dust off your astrophysics & analysis text books to fulfill the prerequisites for this adventure. An interesting story but can’t thinking what it could have been if Andy Weir wrote it.

Analysis

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"Diaspora" by Greg Egan (1997) is of mixed quality. The novel was written to fit around a short story that Egan published earlier, "Wang's Carpets." That short story appears as Chapter 11.

From the start of the book through the end of Chapter 6 (Parts 1 and 2), Diaspora offers some of the best science fiction I've listened to. It is chock full of fascinating ideas, the plot is engaging and exciting, and you care deeply about the characters.

Chapter 11, "Wang's Carpets," is another bright, high point in the audiobook.

Unfortunately, these high-quality sections only make up about a third of the novel. The remaining chapters are of much lower quality, and that quality gradually diminishes further as the end of the novel approaches. The important characters become less and less relateable, and Egan spends too much time philosophizing over fictional mathematics and physics. The last third of the book is a wild goose chase, whose ultimate conclusion is deeply unsatisfying and more than faintly ridiculous. I was left feeling cheated, as though Egan demonstrated his tremendous ideas and ability, then strung me along, promising more and failing to deliver.

It is difficult to assign a star rating to a book with both excellent and disappointing segments. I ultimately decided to award four stars, which I consider a generous rating for a book that was one-third excellent, one-third mediocre, and one-third poor.

While some reviewers complained about the narrator, I found nothing wrong with Adam Epstein's narration. It seemed perfectly normal and acceptable to me, and I found his use of voices to distinguish different characters helpful (and similar to what other audiobook narrators do).

If you wish to experience the good parts of Diaspora, you are in luck: Parts 1 and 2 (chapters 1 through 6) stand on their own as a self-contained story. You can listen to these chapters and then stop. Or, if you prefer, you can read from chapter 1 through chapter 11, which will cover all of the book's high points while avoiding the worst parts, which come near the end. If you proceed all the way through, you will find that nuggets of value become increasingly scarce, lost in a seemingly five-dimensional scape of bland text.

If you are interested in Diaspora, consider "Blindsight" by Peter Watts, a story that has a similar style but is strong from beginning to end.

One-third Amazing, One-third OK, One-third Poor

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I've read Diaspora multiple times. It's a great very hard sci-fi story that deal with multiple complex sci-fi ideas in a fun and imaginative way. This is all for naught though as the narrator might as well be text to speech from the 90s. I highly recommend reading this one until someone who actually has some understanding of the subject matter and can be bothered to put some effort into the performance can be found. He can't even be bothered to pronounce a number of the names correctly!

Wonderful book, totally ruined by the narrator.

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I love Greg Egan, but he has a tendency to produce endings that, while logical, are unsatisfying and wondering how it could have been better.

In this case, we follow clones that are on the hunt for the universe hopping Transmuters. Initially the story seemed to be about securing a lasting existence in a universe beset with powerful forces that could lead to extinction. I found the survival story much more interesting than the hunt for the race that helped humanity discover a mind-bending way to survive. C'est la vie.

While I'm giving this three stars, I don't regret the hours I spent listening to this book.

Abruptly Ended

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Very interesting premise for this book, but the extremely complex technical descriptions was a distraction that almost made me drop the book. Narrator was just ok.

Narration Ok, Hard to follow tech speak

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The first half is slow. The second half is magnificent. Death's End and The Redemption Of Time probably drew inspiration, either directly or indirectly, from here.

Hard sci-fi for the ages

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I found this story interesting. I had heard it was a difficult story to get through. Not sure if I could recommend it or if I would come back to this.

Interesting

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Strike three of the Kindle-Audible sale books. Egan is very interesting...until you hear it from the mouth of this reader.

If only the energy of his introductions flowed into his reading of the text...might be able to listen to this.

But...you get what you paid for (and I paid $1.99 for this...and the other two)

Adam's Curse

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First of all, the narrator is decent, not terrible as some reviewers say. Just increase the speed to 1.3x and he sounds fine, you can even turn it to 1.5x and it's easy to understand,

I really like this book! Love the world building, which isn't elaborate but it is super interesting. The characters are not developed but they serve their purpose. Not much plot and the setting is nothing special but you get payoff in the form of cool concepts. Right at the beginning (not a spoiler) you learn that Humanity achieved the technology to upload consciousness in 2065, and most people chose to do it, although some instead chose to graft their minds onto robot bodies, and others to stay as mortals. Of the mortals, some chose genetic enhancements, some chose to stay as normal humans, and still others chose to regress to intelligent apes to be more in tune with nature.

The novel is full of fun futurism that is the stuff a sci-fi fan wants to read about! You are made to think what it would be like to be an immortal digital consciousness, which leads to thinking about things on a universal time scale, higher dimensions...the book is nerd heaven, what else can I say? One quibble is there was really no mention of AGI which was a slight letdown, but still I rate the book an A-, a must read for sure.

Ignore the haters.

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