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The Lifecycle Of Software Objects (2010)

by Ted Chiang(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1596063173 (ISBN13: 9781596063174)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Subterranean

review 1: TLOSF has ideas for a dozen different sci-fi books on AI. It is so dense and replete with ideas that your head is going to buzz oddly after reading just a few pages in this short novella because you will need time to process Chiang's relentless but oddly structured imagination. At the expense of the vastness of ideas in TLOSF, actual drama and the presence of flesh-and-blood struggles of soul between flesh-and-blood characters go for a toss. This hasn't been the case with Chiang's short stories. Since his short stories are well, short, there's equal room for ideas and the 'human touch' he's so famous for. This one being a longer body of work can't maintain that kind of a balance.
review 2: I read this as part of my recent novella kick and really enjoyed it. It ... morewas fascinating to follow the entire lifecycle of a virtual reality AI. What happens when competition arises? What happens when their owner gets bored? What happens when the startup that made them goes out of business? What happens when the platform they were built for is no longer supported? It's not a long read, and it's well worth it. less

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