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Candle (Century Next Door #3)
by John Barnes
Style: First person past tense.
Characters
Currie Curtis Curran - retired Cowboy hunter, narrater of the story
Mary - Currieâs wife, fragile and unstable, she needs constant management from her Resuna.
Dave Singleton AKA Lobo - Cowboy fugitive (AKA someone not plugged into One True)
Kelly - Daveâs daughter
One True - an AI (though AI is never used in the book, it and all the competitors for the human minds are called memes) comprised of billions of copies of Resuna running in human brains.
This book is book three in a series but it stands alone nicely. I didnât read the first two and I enjoyed it. It is a well written concept science fiction novel.
The concept is a post apocalyptic world where humans are monitored and controlled by an AI called One True. One True won the meme wars and now nearly all of humanity lives peacefully constantly monitored by their own personalized copies of a program called Resuna (small programs that as a whole make up One True). One True keeps everyone happy and in sync and when necessary uses âLet override, Let overwriteâ to fix moments of conflict - literally erasing and rewriting memories if needed.
People who live outside the system are called cowboys and the man character Currie is a retired Cowboy hunter. He is pulled out of retirement by One True to hunt down a particularly dangerous (according to One True he is very bad indeed) Cowboy named Lobo. One True shows him a recording from a young girlâs mind that shows Lobo raping her and her mother. After that Currie is eager to start the man hunt.
The tables are turned when Lobo captures Currie and he wakes up alone in his head. No answer from his familiar Resuna. They talk and come to a truce. It is during their talk that Lobo insists that the rape memory was fake - or it was probably an amalgam of rape memories from other women because One True has access to everyoneâs memories. The woman and girl were actually his wife and child and he disconnected them from One True in order to talk to them.
At first Currie argues that One True didnât do that but his argument fades even as he is making it because in fact his whole life his and Maryâs Resuna have been âfixingâ things. Rewriting memories, erasing fights, adjusting emotionsâ¦He realizes practically mid-sentence what that means.
They exchange stories and become sort of friends as they reminisce about the war and how each of them might have ended up with the otherâs life. As a science fiction story it is really interesting but from a character development point the two protagonists really are too identical and a little generic.
When the eventual betrayal comes, it hardly feels like one. Turns out Dave put a copy of a meme called Freecyber in Currie and then burned his port. Dave then ditches Currie, leaving him alone and enraged at the betrayal.
When Resuma finally talks to Currie again, it turns out it has been there all along unable to communicate and being separated from One True, it seemed to have evolved and independent personality - to the point of pouting and being angry at Currie at one point. Perhaps that was from being combined with Freecyber as well as the separation.
Currie gets rescued and Dave is captured and One True reveals that it was all part of its plan. It had been looking for the last wild copy of Freecyber. He wanted to create being that were not part of him that he could talk to. Sort of like god that way.
by John Barnes
Style: First person past tense.
Characters
Currie Curtis Curran - retired Cowboy hunter, narrater of the story
Mary - Currieâs wife, fragile and unstable, she needs constant management from her Resuna.
Dave Singleton AKA Lobo - Cowboy fugitive (AKA someone not plugged into One True)
Kelly - Daveâs daughter
One True - an AI (though AI is never used in the book, it and all the competitors for the human minds are called memes) comprised of billions of copies of Resuna running in human brains.
This book is book three in a series but it stands alone nicely. I didnât read the first two and I enjoyed it. It is a well written concept science fiction novel.
The concept is a post apocalyptic world where humans are monitored and controlled by an AI called One True. One True won the meme wars and now nearly all of humanity lives peacefully constantly monitored by their own personalized copies of a program called Resuna (small programs that as a whole make up One True). One True keeps everyone happy and in sync and when necessary uses âLet override, Let overwriteâ to fix moments of conflict - literally erasing and rewriting memories if needed.
People who live outside the system are called cowboys and the man character Currie is a retired Cowboy hunter. He is pulled out of retirement by One True to hunt down a particularly dangerous (according to One True he is very bad indeed) Cowboy named Lobo. One True shows him a recording from a young girlâs mind that shows Lobo raping her and her mother. After that Currie is eager to start the man hunt.
The tables are turned when Lobo captures Currie and he wakes up alone in his head. No answer from his familiar Resuna. They talk and come to a truce. It is during their talk that Lobo insists that the rape memory was fake - or it was probably an amalgam of rape memories from other women because One True has access to everyoneâs memories. The woman and girl were actually his wife and child and he disconnected them from One True in order to talk to them.
At first Currie argues that One True didnât do that but his argument fades even as he is making it because in fact his whole life his and Maryâs Resuna have been âfixingâ things. Rewriting memories, erasing fights, adjusting emotionsâ¦He realizes practically mid-sentence what that means.
They exchange stories and become sort of friends as they reminisce about the war and how each of them might have ended up with the otherâs life. As a science fiction story it is really interesting but from a character development point the two protagonists really are too identical and a little generic.
When the eventual betrayal comes, it hardly feels like one. Turns out Dave put a copy of a meme called Freecyber in Currie and then burned his port. Dave then ditches Currie, leaving him alone and enraged at the betrayal.
When Resuma finally talks to Currie again, it turns out it has been there all along unable to communicate and being separated from One True, it seemed to have evolved and independent personality - to the point of pouting and being angry at Currie at one point. Perhaps that was from being combined with Freecyber as well as the separation.
Currie gets rescued and Dave is captured and One True reveals that it was all part of its plan. It had been looking for the last wild copy of Freecyber. He wanted to create being that were not part of him that he could talk to. Sort of like god that way.
Candle (Century Next Door #3)
by John Barnes
Style: First person past tense.
Characters
Currie Curtis Curran - retired Cowboy hunter, narrater of the story
Mary - Currieâs wife, fragile and unstable, she needs constant management from her Resuna.
Dave Singleton AKA Lobo - Cowboy fugitive (AKA someone not plugged into One True)
Kelly - Daveâs daughter
One True - an AI (though AI is never used in the book, it and all the competitors for the human minds are called memes) comprised of billions of copies of Resuna running in human brains.
This book is book three in a series but it stands alone nicely. I didnât read the first two and I enjoyed it. It is a well written concept science fiction novel.
The concept is a post apocalyptic world where humans are monitored and controlled by an AI called One True. One True won the meme wars and now nearly all of humanity lives peacefully constantly monitored by their own personalized copies of a program called Resuna (small programs that as a whole make up One True). One True keeps everyone happy and in sync and when necessary uses âLet override, Let overwriteâ to fix moments of conflict - literally erasing and rewriting memories if needed.
People who live outside the system are called cowboys and the man character Currie is a retired Cowboy hunter. He is pulled out of retirement by One True to hunt down a particularly dangerous (according to One True he is very bad indeed) Cowboy named Lobo. One True shows him a recording from a young girlâs mind that shows Lobo raping her and her mother. After that Currie is eager to start the man hunt.
The tables are turned when Lobo captures Currie and he wakes up alone in his head. No answer from his familiar Resuna. They talk and come to a truce. It is during their talk that Lobo insists that the rape memory was fake - or it was probably an amalgam of rape memories from other women because One True has access to everyoneâs memories. The woman and girl were actually his wife and child and he disconnected them from One True in order to talk to them.
At first Currie argues that One True didnât do that but his argument fades even as he is making it because in fact his whole life his and Maryâs Resuna have been âfixingâ things. Rewriting memories, erasing fights, adjusting emotionsâ¦He realizes practically mid-sentence what that means.
They exchange stories and become sort of friends as they reminisce about the war and how each of them might have ended up with the otherâs life. As a science fiction story it is really interesting but from a character development point the two protagonists really are too identical and a little generic.
When the eventual betrayal comes, it hardly feels like one. Turns out Dave put a copy of a meme called Freecyber in Currie and then burned his port. Dave then ditches Currie, leaving him alone and enraged at the betrayal.
When Resuma finally talks to Currie again, it turns out it has been there all along unable to communicate and being separated from One True, it seemed to have evolved and independent personality - to the point of pouting and being angry at Currie at one point. Perhaps that was from being combined with Freecyber as well as the separation.
Currie gets rescued and Dave is captured and One True reveals that it was all part of its plan. It had been looking for the last wild copy of Freecyber. He wanted to create being that were not part of him that he could talk to. Sort of like god that way.
by John Barnes
Style: First person past tense.
Characters
Currie Curtis Curran - retired Cowboy hunter, narrater of the story
Mary - Currieâs wife, fragile and unstable, she needs constant management from her Resuna.
Dave Singleton AKA Lobo - Cowboy fugitive (AKA someone not plugged into One True)
Kelly - Daveâs daughter
One True - an AI (though AI is never used in the book, it and all the competitors for the human minds are called memes) comprised of billions of copies of Resuna running in human brains.
This book is book three in a series but it stands alone nicely. I didnât read the first two and I enjoyed it. It is a well written concept science fiction novel.
The concept is a post apocalyptic world where humans are monitored and controlled by an AI called One True. One True won the meme wars and now nearly all of humanity lives peacefully constantly monitored by their own personalized copies of a program called Resuna (small programs that as a whole make up One True). One True keeps everyone happy and in sync and when necessary uses âLet override, Let overwriteâ to fix moments of conflict - literally erasing and rewriting memories if needed.
People who live outside the system are called cowboys and the man character Currie is a retired Cowboy hunter. He is pulled out of retirement by One True to hunt down a particularly dangerous (according to One True he is very bad indeed) Cowboy named Lobo. One True shows him a recording from a young girlâs mind that shows Lobo raping her and her mother. After that Currie is eager to start the man hunt.
The tables are turned when Lobo captures Currie and he wakes up alone in his head. No answer from his familiar Resuna. They talk and come to a truce. It is during their talk that Lobo insists that the rape memory was fake - or it was probably an amalgam of rape memories from other women because One True has access to everyoneâs memories. The woman and girl were actually his wife and child and he disconnected them from One True in order to talk to them.
At first Currie argues that One True didnât do that but his argument fades even as he is making it because in fact his whole life his and Maryâs Resuna have been âfixingâ things. Rewriting memories, erasing fights, adjusting emotionsâ¦He realizes practically mid-sentence what that means.
They exchange stories and become sort of friends as they reminisce about the war and how each of them might have ended up with the otherâs life. As a science fiction story it is really interesting but from a character development point the two protagonists really are too identical and a little generic.
When the eventual betrayal comes, it hardly feels like one. Turns out Dave put a copy of a meme called Freecyber in Currie and then burned his port. Dave then ditches Currie, leaving him alone and enraged at the betrayal.
When Resuma finally talks to Currie again, it turns out it has been there all along unable to communicate and being separated from One True, it seemed to have evolved and independent personality - to the point of pouting and being angry at Currie at one point. Perhaps that was from being combined with Freecyber as well as the separation.
Currie gets rescued and Dave is captured and One True reveals that it was all part of its plan. It had been looking for the last wild copy of Freecyber. He wanted to create being that were not part of him that he could talk to. Sort of like god that way.
Candle (Century Next Door #3)
by John Barnes
Style: First person past tense.
Characters
Currie Curtis Curran - retired Cowboy hunter, narrater of the story
Mary - Currieâs wife, fragile and unstable, she needs constant management from her Resuna.
Dave Singleton AKA Lobo - Cowboy fugitive (AKA someone not plugged into One True)
Kelly - Daveâs daughter
One True - an AI (though AI is never used in the book, it and all the competitors for the human minds are called memes) comprised of billions of copies of Resuna running in human brains.
This book is book three in a series but it stands alone nicely. I didnât read the first two and I enjoyed it. It is a well written concept science fiction novel.
The concept is a post apocalyptic world where humans are monitored and controlled by an AI called One True. One True won the meme wars and now nearly all of humanity lives peacefully constantly monitored by their own personalized copies of a program called Resuna (small programs that as a whole make up One True). One True keeps everyone happy and in sync and when necessary uses âLet override, Let overwriteâ to fix moments of conflict - literally erasing and rewriting memories if needed.
People who live outside the system are called cowboys and the man character Currie is a retired Cowboy hunter. He is pulled out of retirement by One True to hunt down a particularly dangerous (according to One True he is very bad indeed) Cowboy named Lobo. One True shows him a recording from a young girlâs mind that shows Lobo raping her and her mother. After that Currie is eager to start the man hunt.
The tables are turned when Lobo captures Currie and he wakes up alone in his head. No answer from his familiar Resuna. They talk and come to a truce. It is during their talk that Lobo insists that the rape memory was fake - or it was probably an amalgam of rape memories from other women because One True has access to everyoneâs memories. The woman and girl were actually his wife and child and he disconnected them from One True in order to talk to them.
At first Currie argues that One True didnât do that but his argument fades even as he is making it because in fact his whole life his and Maryâs Resuna have been âfixingâ things. Rewriting memories, erasing fights, adjusting emotionsâ¦He realizes practically mid-sentence what that means.
They exchange stories and become sort of friends as they reminisce about the war and how each of them might have ended up with the otherâs life. As a science fiction story it is really interesting but from a character development point the two protagonists really are too identical and a little generic.
When the eventual betrayal comes, it hardly feels like one. Turns out Dave put a copy of a meme called Freecyber in Currie and then burned his port. Dave then ditches Currie, leaving him alone and enraged at the betrayal.
When Resuma finally talks to Currie again, it turns out it has been there all along unable to communicate and being separated from One True, it seemed to have evolved and independent personality - to the point of pouting and being angry at Currie at one point. Perhaps that was from being combined with Freecyber as well as the separation.
Currie gets rescued and Dave is captured and One True reveals that it was all part of its plan. It had been looking for the last wild copy of Freecyber. He wanted to create being that were not part of him that he could talk to. Sort of like god that way.
by John Barnes
Style: First person past tense.
Characters
Currie Curtis Curran - retired Cowboy hunter, narrater of the story
Mary - Currieâs wife, fragile and unstable, she needs constant management from her Resuna.
Dave Singleton AKA Lobo - Cowboy fugitive (AKA someone not plugged into One True)
Kelly - Daveâs daughter
One True - an AI (though AI is never used in the book, it and all the competitors for the human minds are called memes) comprised of billions of copies of Resuna running in human brains.
This book is book three in a series but it stands alone nicely. I didnât read the first two and I enjoyed it. It is a well written concept science fiction novel.
The concept is a post apocalyptic world where humans are monitored and controlled by an AI called One True. One True won the meme wars and now nearly all of humanity lives peacefully constantly monitored by their own personalized copies of a program called Resuna (small programs that as a whole make up One True). One True keeps everyone happy and in sync and when necessary uses âLet override, Let overwriteâ to fix moments of conflict - literally erasing and rewriting memories if needed.
People who live outside the system are called cowboys and the man character Currie is a retired Cowboy hunter. He is pulled out of retirement by One True to hunt down a particularly dangerous (according to One True he is very bad indeed) Cowboy named Lobo. One True shows him a recording from a young girlâs mind that shows Lobo raping her and her mother. After that Currie is eager to start the man hunt.
The tables are turned when Lobo captures Currie and he wakes up alone in his head. No answer from his familiar Resuna. They talk and come to a truce. It is during their talk that Lobo insists that the rape memory was fake - or it was probably an amalgam of rape memories from other women because One True has access to everyoneâs memories. The woman and girl were actually his wife and child and he disconnected them from One True in order to talk to them.
At first Currie argues that One True didnât do that but his argument fades even as he is making it because in fact his whole life his and Maryâs Resuna have been âfixingâ things. Rewriting memories, erasing fights, adjusting emotionsâ¦He realizes practically mid-sentence what that means.
They exchange stories and become sort of friends as they reminisce about the war and how each of them might have ended up with the otherâs life. As a science fiction story it is really interesting but from a character development point the two protagonists really are too identical and a little generic.
When the eventual betrayal comes, it hardly feels like one. Turns out Dave put a copy of a meme called Freecyber in Currie and then burned his port. Dave then ditches Currie, leaving him alone and enraged at the betrayal.
When Resuma finally talks to Currie again, it turns out it has been there all along unable to communicate and being separated from One True, it seemed to have evolved and independent personality - to the point of pouting and being angry at Currie at one point. Perhaps that was from being combined with Freecyber as well as the separation.
Currie gets rescued and Dave is captured and One True reveals that it was all part of its plan. It had been looking for the last wild copy of Freecyber. He wanted to create being that were not part of him that he could talk to. Sort of like god that way.
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