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A troubled man leads a writer and a scientist into "The Zone", a mysterious area where the laws of physics …
A troubled man leads a writer and a scientist into "The Zone", a mysterious area …
Great theme. In my opinion the pacing is too slow. Good writing style. The theme did not age in the slightest.
Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a …
It's really good. The series is about the sentience "Bob" which is uploaded into a self-replicating spacecraft and then travels the galaxys, helps the humans, ... etc. I won't go into spoilers here. The topic of "artifical" versus "natural" intelligence plays a major role in the books and "Bob" is confronted with many situations in which he feels very human and/or very computer and/or struggles with the line between the two.
The pacing is very well done. The book overall is well-crafted and VERY WELL RESEARCHED. Yes it's still fiction but I'd say 98%+ of the book is based on real & possible physics.
"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space …
It's really good. The series is about the sentience "Bob" which is uploaded into a self-replicating spacecraft and then travels the galaxys, helps the humans, ... etc. I won't go into spoilers here. The topic of "artifical" versus "natural" intelligence plays a major role in the books and "Bob" is confronted with many situations in which he feels very human and/or very computer and/or struggles with the line between the two.
The pacing is very well done. The book overall is well-crafted and VERY WELL RESEARCHED. Yes it's still fiction but I'd say 98%+ of the book is based on real & possible physics.
Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a …
It's really good. The series is about the sentience "Bob" which is uploaded into a self-replicating spacecraft and then travels the galaxys, helps the humans, ... etc. I won't go into spoilers here. The topic of "artifical" versus "natural" intelligence plays a major role in the books and "Bob" is confronted with many situations in which he feels very human and/or very computer and/or struggles with the line between the two.
The pacing is very well done. The book overall is well-crafted and VERY WELL RESEARCHED. Yes it's still fiction but I'd say 98%+ of the book is based on real & possible physics.
"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob …
Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. …
Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. …
"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob …
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places …
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places …
Seriously how do I add books to "done reading" from the book page? And is there any way to toot without the toot being related to a book or a book event?
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike …
I liked boneshaker. The pacing is good. The charachters are good.
Tbh the book could have done without the "zombification".
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to …
