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Chargement... Bête (2014)par Adam Roberts
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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. In a world where animals have been infected with a super virus which gives them sentience, Graham, an erst-while farmer and butcher, is out of work. This hilarious novel followshis progress through an increasingly chaotic landscape, coping with the death of a partner, as he searches for a new niche in life.... aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A man is about to kill a cow. He discusses life and death and his right to kill with the compliant animal. He begins to suspect he may be about to commit murder. But kills anyway ... It began when the animal rights movement injected domestic animals with artificial intelligences in a bid to have the status of animals realigned by the international court of human rights. But what is an animal that can talk? Where does its intelligence end at its machine intelligence begin? And where might its soul reside? As we place more and more pressure on the natural world and become more and more divorced Adam Roberts' new novel posits a world where nature can talk back, and can question us and our beliefs. Roberts is an award winning author at the peak of his powers and each new novel charts an exciting new direction while maintaining a uniformly high level of literary achievement. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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And so begins a raft of changes in Graham's life, as his farm fails and he hits the road just to survive. The rise of the animal rights movement has empowered the animals in England, and given them some political power. As he drifts in and out of of a dramatically different society, he never really escapes from his past actions. And one day that very past confronts him, and offers him a choice.
Possibly the strangest book I have read in a while, it is a blend of a dystopian future, with a cyber culture sub text. The society was fairly well advanced until the rise of these AI enhances creatures. As I read it I felt that I was reading a modern version of Animal Farm, but rather than a communist overthrow of a farm, this was the rise of the AI animal. Weird and disturbing at times, this was a genuinely original dystopian novel. ( )