May 5, 2005
Halo
Tom Maddox. Tor: 1991.
What in the world is this? Some strange mix of cyberpunk, pseudo-Eastern mysticism, and 60's hallucinogenic utopia. Plot revolves around an orbiting computer which controls a biosphere-opia. It wants to absorb the soul of a dying man so it can evolve to the next step of machine intelligence. Questions such as what does it mean to be intelligent or to have a soul are dealt with only in superficial ways - or buried in so much mumbo-jumbo as to be meaningless.
Tom Maddox. Tor: 1991.
What in the world is this? Some strange mix of cyberpunk, pseudo-Eastern mysticism, and 60's hallucinogenic utopia. Plot revolves around an orbiting computer which controls a biosphere-opia. It wants to absorb the soul of a dying man so it can evolve to the next step of machine intelligence. Questions such as what does it mean to be intelligent or to have a soul are dealt with only in superficial ways - or buried in so much mumbo-jumbo as to be meaningless.
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