The Simulacrum ISBN-13 : 979-8328077170 Copyright 2024, Peter Cawdron, 391 pages, English What happens when an AI computer system decides it wants something? Well, it immediately becomes worthless as a computer because there is now an inherent bias. That “want” is also called “volition” and it exists in all known life. A want, …
Peter Watts, Tor Books, copyright 1999 Altering humans in order to live in alien environments isn’t a new concept in science fiction. John Varley, with his symbiotic exosuits, has made a career of it. Peter Watts has surgically and technologically altered his characters to live in the most alien and inhuman environment on Earth: at …