Exhalation

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories--two published for the very first time--all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others

Tackling some of humanity's oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, th...show more

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368 pages

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margardenlady
Dec 27, 2023
8/10 stars
Fascinating and thought provoking set of short stories that examine free will, language, and ethics in the presence of technologies that could enhance the human lived experience. I think that 'The lifecycle of software objects' and 'Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom' will stick with me for a long time. The former closely examines the use of AI to create pets and perhaps companions, the latter imagines a technology that allows you to view your ...read more

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