Re:Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?
by Aron on Sunday October 08, 2017 @08:42PM
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There was some page towards the end I remember being hopelessly lost and never recovered.
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You mean yourself or the plot?
I think that in the third act Egan added some weaker elements both as a corollary of the idea being explored and as a way of introducing some traditional action, in a novel that is otherwise mostly the setup of an elaborate thought experiment.
Nonetheless, I think the result is extraordinary, because the problems posed, the paradoxes highlighted, and some brilliant insights, are new and valid outside the fictional world created in the novel.