Chimera (Salt Modern Fiction)

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Science fiction is a genre I read only occasionally and this is an interesting take on the dangers of space exploration. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. 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.

Alice Thompson, one-time keyboard player for Eighties band The Woodentops, is now an established novelist, who has won praise from Ian Rankin and Stephen King.Set in a not-so-distant future, Alice Thompson’s eighth work of fiction, Chimera , is just that: a chimera of a novel. The synopsis doesn't touch on anything that would make you think it's tying in themes of mythos and I'm unsure if that's the intent or not, so hence my prefaces so future readers hopefully feel satisfied of this genre blend.

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Having said that, I retain reservations over the plot’s efficacy and my lack of investment in outcomes until the end. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. Alice Thompson… grabs hold of the detective fiction tradition, flings it in the air, lets it crash to the floor, and jumps on it till it’s in smithereens. Accompanied by dryads, sophisticated AIs with synthetic bodies, nothing is quite as it seems, even desire. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

ACT Contact / FAQ About Events / Videos Merch / Subs Sign in/up Chimera Thompson, Alice More by this author. 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. 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. Humans live their lives plugged into virtual reality, entertained so accepting of this limited lifestyle. By writing down sensations, dreams and literary fragments floating in her consciousness, she is hoping to recover some of those experiences.There is an intensity in the short chapters and strange characters yet engagement felt oddly detached throughout. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. Alice Thompson's gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. The idea of erasure reminds me of Niamh Prior’s recent short story titled ‘Peter and Jane’ , which uses only the 300 key words from the eponymous Ladybird First Reader Series to convey dark tales of Peter and Jane’s adulthood. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.

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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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. It had been assumed that the development of AI would lead inevitably to machine consciousness, but that has yet to come to pass.Based off of earlier reviews I think this understanding of how mythology played largely in this story gave it a low avg. We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. Other characters that tie in to this grand mythos: Cressida, Luther, Myra, Daniel, Seth (think Set). With its gothic motifs, this dark portrait of a ‘fairytale’ marriage is full of mystery and suspense … an elegant and bloodily shocking entertainment. At the surface: Artemis is a part of a space mission to get to a new moon to try and find a bacteria that could help consume the carbon in the air on Earth and re-stabilize the environment.