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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6801023" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>Read <em>Searching for the Mahdi</em>, by N. Lee Wood. The blurb on the cover had a comparison to Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, which after reading I can only assume was based on the fact that both are set in the near future and have computer networks. Also both are books. It's not a bad book, but it's got a strange split personality: part lecture/diatribe about Middle Eastern culture via a fictitious Mideast country that sounds like it ought to be near Pakistan & India but is apparently near (but not next to) Israel (I still can't tell if the author is pro- or con-Islam); part first-person griping about how she (the narrator) is short and ugly (she gets the uber-sexy android in the end, and plastic surgery, so it's OK I guess?) I don't mind the description, but it really starts to come across as a serious psychological issue. Then again, if you made your fame disguised as a man, maybe having a hangup about your appearance is legit? I don't know.</p><p></p><p>There is an AI, but it's not really a character.</p><p></p><p>Have moved on to <em>Maze of Stars</em>, by John Brunner. Enjoying it more. Just realized that's an AI also. Maybe I should just read books with AIs in them.</p><p></p><p><strong>Update:</strong> Read <em>China Mountain Zhang</em> and quite enjoyed it. SF, but minimal AI's. Also <em>Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days</em>. No AI's per se, but maximally enhanced humanity. Was going to read <em>Half A King</em>, but got two pages in and realized I'd already read it. Have gotten <em>Half The World</em> and <em>Half A War</em> to read instead.</p><p></p><p><strong>Update 1/26:</strong> <em>Half The World</em> and <em>Half A War</em> were really good. I just started <em>The 4th Annual Years Best Science Fiction</em>, but the first two stories are really familiar. Not sure if they've been collected elsewhere, or I've read this before. :/</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6801023, member: 70"] Read [I]Searching for the Mahdi[/I], by N. Lee Wood. The blurb on the cover had a comparison to Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, which after reading I can only assume was based on the fact that both are set in the near future and have computer networks. Also both are books. It's not a bad book, but it's got a strange split personality: part lecture/diatribe about Middle Eastern culture via a fictitious Mideast country that sounds like it ought to be near Pakistan & India but is apparently near (but not next to) Israel (I still can't tell if the author is pro- or con-Islam); part first-person griping about how she (the narrator) is short and ugly (she gets the uber-sexy android in the end, and plastic surgery, so it's OK I guess?) I don't mind the description, but it really starts to come across as a serious psychological issue. Then again, if you made your fame disguised as a man, maybe having a hangup about your appearance is legit? I don't know. There is an AI, but it's not really a character. Have moved on to [I]Maze of Stars[/I], by John Brunner. Enjoying it more. Just realized that's an AI also. Maybe I should just read books with AIs in them. [B]Update:[/B] Read [I]China Mountain Zhang[/I] and quite enjoyed it. SF, but minimal AI's. Also [I]Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days[/I]. No AI's per se, but maximally enhanced humanity. Was going to read [I]Half A King[/I], but got two pages in and realized I'd already read it. Have gotten [I]Half The World[/I] and [I]Half A War[/I] to read instead. [B]Update 1/26:[/B] [I]Half The World[/I] and [I]Half A War[/I] were really good. I just started [I]The 4th Annual Years Best Science Fiction[/I], but the first two stories are really familiar. Not sure if they've been collected elsewhere, or I've read this before. :/ [/QUOTE]
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