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Descriptions
| Date | User | |||
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| 09.07.2010 20:58 | malte@skipforward.net |  |
Reporter Martin follows the iranian revolution, meeting his later wife. Exile Nasim works on a project mapping the human brain but decides to move to Iran after the revolution to help, ending up working for a VR game company. There, her AI skills prove to be invaluable. |
Reviews
| Date | User | |||
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| 09.07.2010 20:58 | malte@skipforward.net |  |
This feels like a collection of rather unrelated stories. The iranian revolution is a good read but quite irrelevant to the rest of the plot. The biggest problem is that the setup for Martin's turning to Nasim for help later is very contrived. Also, I was let down a bit by the fact that for Egan's standards the implications of reconstructing (part of) personalities in software are not investigated thoroughly. Still, the book is an interesting and enthralling read. |