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Chargement... Quantum Nightpar Robert J. Sawyer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Well I finished it in a couple days because it was an easy read, like all Sawyer. None of the characters really stood out to me as being interesting or different...they were all kind of bland. I do love reading stuff set in Canada, and though Sawyer really lays his political biases on super-thick, I agree with them so it was all good. I liked the ideas, but this book seemed more like a vehicle for the ideas than an actual narrative. There was a lot of explaining, and some stuff happened, and then it ended, and I wasn't really sure why a lot of it happened. Really interesting book. I loved the philosophical discussions in the book, and if the entire book is treated like a thought-experiment, then it's fantastic. I fear, though, some may miss the point. RJS does a great job of introducing new philosophical dilemmas wrapped in a narrative. This book is no different. Doesn't quite have the character development of a character novel, but achieves its goal of discussing what makes us human. Robert J. Sawyer’s Quantum Night Sawyer wrote this novel in an overly political way while through in some smattering of science and pseudo-psychiatric theater to create a simple world where people are one of three categories. Interesting premise, but since people are quite complex you can’t really categorize them that way. That’s one problem with the psychiatric mind is that it is more interested in labeling rather than curing the problems of the mind. But I digress. Jim searches for his missing memories and just as in an old pulp fiction novel he finds those six months and is shocked by what he has done. Solution: Change the course of humanity upward to avoid World War III. Girlfriend only cares about her daughter becoming a philosophical zombie (lots of these terms peppered throughout the book) and so screw humanity, let me save my daughter! Philosophical conundrums abound in this book. Should we save all of humanity for the sake of one? Or should we sacrifice the one for the common good, even if you become a real jerk in the process? I’m sure Quantum Physics can be used for better things that screwing with the minds of the 7 billion peoples of Earth. Sawyer tends to politicize the whole thing – Putin, a US President with expansion ambition annexing Canada, a near start to World War III and three people who use a billion dollar device to change the course of humanity at the cost of a life. Sounds too good to be true. It is. Sawyer’s last two novels have not be on par with his earlier novels, and I’m not sure why. WWW Trilogy was cool. Loved Fast Forward and others. 3 stars. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"With such compelling and provocative novels as Red Planet Blues, FlashForward and The WWW Trilogy, Robert J. Sawyer has proven himself to be "a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation" (New York Times). Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the thin line between good and evil that every human being is capable of crossing... Experimental psychologist Chris Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Chris is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously--a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts. Chris is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend from his lost period and now a quantum physicist who has made a stunning discovery about the nature of human consciousness. As a rising tide of violence and hate sweeps across the globe, the psychologist and the physicist combine forces in a race against time to see if they can do the impossible--change human nature--before the entire world descends into darkness. "-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Without committing any spoilers, I can tell you that there are aspects of this story that feel way too real in this worrisome election year. ( )