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Greg Egan
Diaspora
Title: Diaspora
Author: Greg Egan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 0
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ISBN: 1857984390
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By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey
beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame.
The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into three:
fleshers — true Homo sapiens; Gleisner robots — embodying human minds within machines that
interact with the physical world; and polises — supercomputers teeming with intelligent software,
containing the direct copies of billions of human personalities now existing only in the virtual
reality of the polis.
Diaspora is the story of Yatima — a polis being created from random mutations of the Konishi
polis base mind seed — and of humankind, Of an astrophysical accident that spurs the
thousandfold cloning of the polises. Of the discovery of an alien race and of a kink in time that
means humanity — whatever form it takes — will never again be threatened by acts of God.
Insightful reviews
Youssef: If you don't have a mind for hard speculative science, you might want to give this one
a miss. The book is rife with very complicated stuff, and if you're like me, you'd have absolutely
no idea if it was brilliant or absurd. Simply put, large swathes of this novel were inaccessible to
me, and that's neither the authors fault nor mine, we were not meant to be.
On the other hand, the "story", or what I might have enjoyed is rather non existing. Hopping
from character to character, or different versions of the same character, I was unable to relate to
any single one of them. Yetima disappears mysteriously after being the focus from the start, and
remains so for a long time, just to reappear as a washed up version of itself. The events are
frankly uninspired, culminating to a bland and dispiriting end. It's all a transparent excuse to
insert scientific speculation that I am not equipped to understand, nor can I just ignore it and
enjoy story-line and characters. At the risk of sounding redundant: I did not like it.
Daniorte: "EL ABSTRACIONISMO DESBOCADO" El solo se podría definir así en la novela
cuando hace referencia de las "Macroesferas".
Sabía que me enfrentaba a lo que es una de sus novelas más complejas. Leí Axiomático y me
parece asequible y recomendadísima para todo el mundo, luego con "Cuarentena" en algunos
momentos se le va pero la novela la disfrutas y sigues el hilo sin ningún problema. Quise ver a
qué se referían con su parte más dura y me puse con Diáspora.
Lo Mejor: La idea es original, me gusta muchísimo el concepto de vida que propone, el primer
capítulo te recuerda a "Los propios dioses" de Asimov, la vida en las polis y esa vida
autoconsciente apoyada en software en único. El planteamiento del cataclismo (Que por cierto
se asemeja mucho a la idea de Mundo Anillo de Niven) y como se produce la Diáspora y su
resolución también me han gustado mucho pero...
Lo Peor: Hay que conformarse con "medio enterarte" de lo que habla. Hay gente que lo califica
como ciencia ficción dura, pero esto no es ciencia ficción dura si la entendemos como aquella
que es lógica, creíble y rigurosa en relación con los conocimientos científicos del momento. Al
contrario, Egan parte de una teoría cosmológica inventada por el mismo y que vertebra el libro
completamente haciendo divagaciones totalmente incomprensibles sobre agujeros de gusanos
y multiuniversos con 6 e incluso más dimensiones.Cientos de páginas explicando el
funcionamiento o las características de esa teoría de Kozuch (Inventada por allá por el año
2050) que sinceramente me hizo plantearme abandonar el libro pero el deseo de saber que fue
de los transmutadores hizo que continuara.
Aún así es un libro que, si bien no recomiendo, si que entiendo que exista gente que le
apasione si llega a conectar con los fundamentos de la teoría que propone. En relación con
Egan, para nada lo abandonaré ya que quitando lo malo es un derroche de originalidad
increíble
Adam: one of the few books I'd rate a 6.
Courtney: for those who come to difficult sci-fi looking for rules approximately how humanity
may perhaps swap as we combine with our machines, or how the universe (or universes) could
healthy jointly well past the observable global we know, chances are you'll good love this book.
it has got a few fascinating ideas. Unfortunately, it is so slowed down via over-the-top "scienceish" writing, susceptible personality improvement and oddly stitched jointly plots that I stored
cursing in annoyance as I read, instead of delighting on the novelty of writer Greg Egan's
ideas.Each of the 2 stitched jointly plots is predicated on a different premise.The first premise: it
is the far away future. humans may be male, girl or genderless. they could inhabit mortal our
bodies like our own, or genetically altered bodies, or immortal robotic bodies, or they could turn
into switched over into immortal human minds/souls that stay eternally within the electronic
realm. and a few humans -- together with Yatima -- are born digitally, the results of a DNA-like
series that permits randomness to form the constituents precious for humanity right into a selfaware being. humans being what they are, those that inhabit mortal our bodies imagine theirs is
the one "true" method to adventure humanity, the totally electronic souls do not comprehend
why a person would select to be constrained via the limitations of the actual world, the robotic
dwellers imagine theirs is the proper compromise, all appear to desire separate spheres of life
as they continue to be warily conscious of the opposite modes of being.The moment premise
comes a good bite of how in to the book, after the 1st premise is firmly established: some of
these other kinds of parents have simply develop into acutely aware that world-destroying (and
even perhaps solar-system-destroying or galaxy-destroying) astronomical occasions are much
more likely and tougher to foretell than they have ever understood before. Now the race is
directly to have the ability to flee or conceal earlier than humanity and existence come to an
end. it isn't transparent if survival calls for touring nice distances around the universe, or options
in technology to create wormholes, or the invention of non-human intelligence, or one other
direction altogether. We stick to a bunch of electronic souls as they enterprise faraway from
earth looking for figuring out and salvation.Both premises are intellectually interesting, even
though they appear type of disjointed, as does the array of characters we meet alongside the
way. The booklet starts off by means of introducing us to Yatima, a genderless new-born
electronic soul, as "ve" explores "ver" world, and introduces us to this international alongside the
way. We get to grasp and prefer a couple of characters, and it truly is tricky when, within the
moment half the book, a tremendous chew of those characters fade from view completely, or
disappear until eventually the previous few pages.Egan additionally does not comprehend whilst
to prevent together with his exact motives of the speculative/imagined technological know-how
that underpins the gigantic global he is imagined. those motives learn like dense educational
treatises, other than that they don't seem to be genuine science, and so they hamper the book.
As this kind of quagmires of over-explanations opens the book, i am surprised that millions of
readers seem to have been, like me, obdurate sufficient to push via to determine what the tale
may particularly be about. As I read, I realized to skim the science-ese and begin being
attentive on the finish of every of those passages. Otherwise, I most likely should not have
made it through.
Jack van Riel: i am extra of a gentle sci-fi than a difficult sci-fi guy, and Diaspora ranks
nanocrystalline adamantium at the hardness scale. there is a lot of primary particles-aswormholes theory, digital humans, additional dimensions, astronomical occasions and the like.
yet it is also strangely human.It asks lots of attention-grabbing questions. Like, what does id
suggest in the event you can form your shape and outlook at will? And in case you can clone
your self up to you like, what does that do to relationships? Are you continue to human in case
you are nearly immortal and will adventure time at your personal speed? do you want a
physique for romance and intimacy? Is it alright to develop to date aside you could not
communicate; will we have to bridge or enable go? What are the bounds to person
choice?Humanity, relationships, choice, responsibility, death, loss and guilt shape the middle of
the book, and the occasionally long theoretical physics expositions do not detract from that. The
booklet is dependent episodically, with assorted sections of the booklet frequently a ways aside
in time and theme. This makes the beginning a section rough, yet it isn't a correct illustration of
the remainder of the book. Ultimately, i feel it really works splendidly well, even if Diaspora
definitely is not a conventional plot-driven character-focused novel. if you happen to get
pleasure from philosophically and intellectually not easy technological know-how fiction, set your
expectancies and ideas approximately what makes a very good tale apart and provides
Diaspora a read.
Noah M.: so far as i will be able to tell, this can be a prequel to the tales "Glory" and "Ride the
Crocodile." It files the early days of interstellar exploration via post-singularity humankind. If this
fairly is a prequel, that suggests the later Amalgam tales don't happen in our universe. i will not
keep in mind if there have been particular references to our galaxy in both of these brief stories,
yet in any case it does not fairly matter.Scope isn't really something this novel lacks. It occurs
throughout greater than 1000000000000 assorted universes, which should be a brand new
checklist or something.I will not discuss the plot too much, other than to assert that you just
certainly cannot count on the course its going in. In a way, that is the book's maximum failing.
this can be very disjointed, occasionally feeling like a chain of associated brief tales greater than
a novel. It starts and ends with an identical POV character, Yatima, yet in among you spend
chapters with a few different characters. all of them orbit round Yatima in a single approach or
another, yet i'd not often say that it really is quite his tale as a result.As is common for Greg
Egan, there's a lot of technological know-how during this book. there isn't any "action," aside
from the thrill of clinical discovery. i discovered the procedural investigations riveting for the
main part.The opening, whereas interesting, is a section much. the 1st 30 pages describe in
elaborate aspect the method wherein digital electorate procreate. you're lead in the course of
the improvement of a unsleeping mind. it is all very interesting, however it used to be much to
battle through earlier than you even get to begin with the plot.So, I beloved this even more than
Distress. i believe Egan's skills are larger fitted to brief tales and novellas, however.
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