![]() He is slowly “cured,” but the cure comes with a price: he has lost much of his talent. Medical advances have allowed a restructuring of the brain and body. He was also an arrogant jerk, to family, friends, and strangers.īut technology has come to his rescue. He had “lost his marbles,” as Robert describes it. He does this in a brilliant way-the main character, Robert is a famous poet who had contracted Alzheimer’s. Yet Vinge avoids the problem of the technology overshadowing the characters and leaving the reader on the outside. ![]() The world he creates will be both familiar to the reader, yet also alien as technology redefines what it means to be human. Big data, wearables, VR technology, state surveillance, and so on-Vinge takes where we are now and extrapolates with masterful perception and understanding. He knows the technology well-well enough to predict its impact on society ten years on. Vinge is a retired professor of mathematics from SDSU, which is where the novel takes place. Set in the near future, the role of technology itself is fascinating, compelling, and troubling. This is another Hugo Award-winning hard science-fiction book. ![]()
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