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: An Enjoyable Page-Turner
Summary: 4 Stars
Implied Spaces is an enjoyable page turner with so many new an intriguing ideas coming at you it can be hard to keep up. You might think that you've picked up maybe the fifth or sixth book in an ongoing series, the backstory is so rich and complex. But no, it seems that Implied Spaces is just an incredibly fast-paced, deeply immersive stand-alone.
One of the many SF tropes in Implied Spaces is the idea that every person can "upload" to some sort of a computer so that, if they die, they can be brought back to life with all memories, emotions, and personality traits in tact. This technology is even used for long distance space travel, in which people "upload" into a small ship and leave their bodies behind. This is interesting, to be sure, but I found the characters cavalier attitude toward this process, and toward death itself, a bit disturbing. If you die, you are in fact dead. I'm not sure how the idea that an exact copy of you will be walking around, using your stuff, and interacting with your loved ones is supposed to be in any way comforting.
And one very minor quibble about the typesetting. The book uses a double space between sentences. While this may be how many of us learned to type in the 80s and before, it is certainly a no-no in publishing and makes for some jagged looking copy. Night Shade Press, please take note!
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