Implied Spaces (Singularity)
by Walter Jon Williams
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Author: Walter Jon WilliamsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-06-19
ISBN: 1597801518
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Night Shade Books
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Book Review: Excellent Zelazny Knockoff
Summary: 5 Stars
I've always liked the work of Walter Jon Williams. His very first book, Knight Moves, was a Zelazny knockoff but he soon moved on to Cyberpunk and high tech sf. This book returns to the earlier form, with a preternaturally competent hero whose life spans centuries. Zelazny's heroes usually (though not always) worked in the shadows. Their actual identities were often unknown to the people whose lives they manipulated. Our hero in this book, Aristide (real name Pablo Perez) started life as a top computer scientist, participated in the establishment of the artificial intelligences which now run civilization, and spends much of his time as a vagabond swordsman investigating the "implied spaces," the spaces that grow naturally out of the artificial building of pocket universes.
On one such adventure, Aristide runs across a plot to take over all the Universes. After alerting the authorities, he volunteers to be a secret agent on a pocket Universe from which many kidnapping/brainwashings seem to have taken place. He sets up a persona named "Franz Sandow," an obvious homage to Francis Sandow, the protagonist of Zelazny's excellent Isle of the Dead. In Zelazny's book, Sandow was a "worldscaper," who could call upon mystical, even godlike powers to do his work. In this book, Aristide is almost as powerful, but his power depends upon his alliance with Endorra, one of the great artificial minds that run civilization.
My only complaint is the deus ex machina nature of the ending. Aristide gets a brilliant revelation about the nature of the Universe that the minds are able to use to come up with new technology. More than a little too pat, but still, I loved the concept, I loved the characters and I loved this book.
Summary of Implied Spaces (Singularity)
From Walter Jon Williams, the celebrated and influential author of Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind, and Angel Station comes Implied Spaces, a new novel of post-singularity action, pyrotechnics, and intrigue. Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, 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 Tecmessa 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.Literature & Fiction Books
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