The Mountain in the Sea: Winner of the Locus Best First Novel Award

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I could recite the theories, but it wasn't until I read Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea that I truly understood it in my bones. Might be a case of “it’s not you it’s me”, and to be fair the book isn’t THAT bad, but in this instance I’m judging it against its own lofty aspirations - I’ve given objectively worse books better ratings, but these books also didn’t try to tell as complex of a story as this one. I hope people don't pick this up hoping for a mindless soft serve of sci-fi and leave disappointed that it's something different; there is a refreshing level of depth here (ha-ha).

Naylor also is clearly a citizen of the modern world, because all of this stuff is (of course) abused by governments and shadowy organizations. It just so happens that the "alien" species is a newly discovered, hyper-evolved community of octopi living in an archipelago off of Vietnam who are displaying a newly developed use of language. I love octopuses, they are fascinating, and I do think their inteligence is not far from how it was described here. Este libro es CF de la buena, si bien tiene una al principio estructura confusa, no molesta, te vas adaptando rápido al igual que el autor va moldeando una historia fascinante, original, muy trabajada y estudiada.The story is set in an undefined but relatively near future, in which the line between nation-states and corporations has all but completely disappeared and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are both widespread and varied.

At a basic level, MITS is about a human scientist working with the world's only android assistant on a protected island, both of them attempting to study and understand a new species of octopus. The stakes are high: there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of the octopuses’ advancements, and as Dr. So too with the novel’s slightly stilted prose; first a limitation, later a lovely reflection of the isolation and loneliness that marks each and every one of the book’s characters: men and women alone in their own minds, surrounded by technology that preys on and exacerbates that loneliness at every turn. Ha Nguyen, una bióloga marina que ha dedicado la vida a investigar el cerebro de los cefalópodos, hará lo posible para estudiarlos. I sympathized with Ha Nguyen and her strong sense of responsibility for everything she is involved in.Not that was bad, but with that kind of sysnopsis, the reader has expectations which will not be fulfilled. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. My only minor gripe is the parts with action were not as engaging as I would have liked, but that could have just been me. To use another movie reference, it's a lot like Her, where things are very much the same in the near future but with lots of clever gadgets and tech that seems to make a lot of sense.It reminds me of classic works from authors like Isaac Asimov and David Brin or David Walton's Three Laws Lethal. I have read some of Ray Nayler’s short fiction in Asimov’s, so was excited to learn he had a debut novel coming out.