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Implied Spaces (Hardcover)

by Walter Jon Williams (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Night Shade Books (1 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1597801259
  • ISBN-13: 978-1597801256
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 550,200 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself. Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmesssa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.

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5.0 out of 5 stars High speed, high-tech science fiction at its most fun, 9 Nov 2008
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*Synopsis*
The sun is orbited by 11 vast slabs, almost-inconceivably powerful AIs whose capabilities have been deliberately limited by 'Asimovian Protocols' to just below the point of 'Vingean-singularity'. The AIs' primary use is to create pocket universes accessible via wormholes, which, by careful tweaking of their initial 'big bang' parameters, can have any conditions required. Humans can backup their minds, which can then be rehoused in artificially grown bodies in the case of death or boredom. Guarded by the AIs, effectively immortal and possessed of limitless resources, humanity is in a happily stagnant utopia. Aristide is one such human, though a little older and more restless than most. He's a 1500 year-old 'semi-retired computer scientist turned biologist turned swordsman' and we first meet him wandering through a deliberately low-tech recreational pocket universe (essentially a real-life MMORPG) armed with a wormhole-generating sword and accompanied by a sardonic talking cat that's a manifestation of one of the AIs. He's there because he's interested in the unlooked-for side-effects of universe generation, the 'implied spaces' that exist between the deliberately created bits, necessary but not designed. Of course, he's not above fighting bandits and chatting up chicks while he's there, but when he finds impossible creatures in the desert his hobby becomes vital for uncovering and defeating a threat to the entirety of human civilisation.

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This is high speed, high-tech science fiction at its most fun. It's got an intriguing and unusual setting, and explores its implications for individuals, societies, and the entire universe. It wrestles with political, ethical, technological and existential dilemmas. But unlike much of the SF with these features, it's also action-packed and really entertaining. There's spaceships, snappy dialogue, death cultists, likeable characters, underwater combat, assassinations of public figures for their own good, zombies, Batman references, robots, memes, talking cats, and stars used as flamethrowers. A lot of books seem to be described as a 'rollercoaster ride', but this is the only one that I've read that really earns the metaphor. There should be more books like this.
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