Under the Blue
Oana Aristide
4.10 · 10 ratings · Published: 11 Mar 2021
Meanwhile two computer scientists have been educating their baby in a remote location. Their baby is called Talos, and he is an advanced AI program. Every week they feed him data, starting from the beginning of written history, era by era, and ask him to predict what will happen next to the human race. At the same time they're involved in a increasingly fraught philosophical debate about why human life is sacred and why the purpose for which he was built - to predict threats to human life to help us avoid them - is a worthwhile and ethical pursuit.
These two strands come together in a way that is always suspenseful, surprising and intellectually provocative: this is an extraordinarily prescient and vital work of fiction - an apocalyptic road novel to frighten and thrill.
- apocalyptic 3
- artificial intelligence 3
- sc-fi 3
- post-apocalyptic 3
- dystopia 3
- contemporary 2
- philosophical 2
- climate change/pollution 2
- action / adventure 2
- epidemy/disease 2
- literary fiction 2
- alternate history 1
- horror 1
- disaster/catastrophe 1
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- format - reader age
- book 1
- adult fiction 1