Chimera (Salt Modern Fiction)

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Alice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Everyone else we see her encounter in the course of the story is, to varying degrees, obsessive, anti-social, manipulative, untrustworthy, a hologram or an AI. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U.

Salt is a small independent publisher and the two books I have read from them have pushed me out of my usual genre in a good way.The Book Collector throws the essential elements of the gothic chiller into a blender and what emerges is something between pastiche and critique, in which its author never loses sight of the need to give her readers, first and foremost, an un-put-down-able yarn. She has produced playful and provocative novels in several genres - supernatural, espionage, crime and postmodern metafiction. The mission is to look for micro-organisms that might alleviate the critical levels of carbon dioxide on Earth. but Thompson takes a very distinctive approach, the notion of "dreams as poetic metaphors of thought" allowing for explorations of the nature of consciousness and where it resides, the fear of losing one's identity, the omnipresence of AI, the frightening implications of virtual reality and the suggestion of forces powerful enough to override both machine programming and human nature - all overlapping and interacting with each other in interesting and inventive ways. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times.

do speak for an edited narrative, it's also so believable as an original-Artemis-POV that I then also have trouble taking the conceit seriously. Following logic, it would then mean that the reader cannot trust literally anything to have actually happened as described. The crew is made up of a mix of humans and dryads (a hybrid of programmed computer and cloned human DNA) – with the mix of human to robot in each varying.

These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. But Mission Control have hinted that her knowledge will be vital when the ship reaches its destination. It is a profound exploration of human truth (and AI future) that stays with you, asking the question of what is real, and what is not real in one’s own life. Synopsis Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Justine is a painting, a doppelgänger and a woman of beguiling beauty. Based off of earlier reviews I think this understanding of how mythology played largely in this story gave it a low avg.

She has produced playful and provocative novels in several genres – supernatural, espionage, crime and postmodern metafiction. As with her previous work, Thompson’s atmospheric palette is hallucinatory, playing with illusion and reality. When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the whereabouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers of deceptions and disappearances that lead him inexorably back to an unsolved mystery in his own past: the loss of his young daughter Emily. Ostensibly, she’s on board Chimera because astronauts aren’t allowed to dream and she has to supervise their welfare. The reveal that it was augmented AI-Artemis who wrote the book - or at least, what it stands in for - does kind of throw the entire preceeding narrative into question for me.The Earth that she set out to save is an environmental wasteland ruled by an oligarchy of tech corporations and populated by people hooked on the AI-created virtual realities they sell.