Genesis
Artificial intelligence has been developed to a point where a human personality can be uploaded into a computer, achieving a sort of hybrid immortality. Astronaut Christian Brannock welcomes this technology, technology that will make it possible for him to achieve his dream of exploring the stars. A billion years later, Brannock returns to earth to check on some strange anomalies. While there he meets Laurinda Ashcroft, another hybrid upload, with whom he joins forces in investigating Gaia, the supermind dominating the planet. They must learn the truth of her shocking and terrifying secret plans for earth.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Tor
- Year
- 2000
- ISBN-13
- 9783404242870
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Topics
- Artificial intelligence and consciousnessImmortality and identityFar-future exploration of Earth's fate
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2001)
Other awarded books from Poul Anderson
- A Midsummer Tempest
- The Boat of a Million Years
- Hrolf Kraki's Saga
- The Stars Are Also Fire
- The People of the Wind
- Orion Shall Rise
- The Fleet of Stars
- Fire Time
- Tau Zero
- The Byworlder
- The High Crusade
- The Star Fox
- There Will Be Time
- We Have Fed Our Sea (also known as The Enemy Stars)
- Dancer from Atlantis
- Harvest of Stars
- Mirkheim
- Mother of Kings
- Starfarers
- The Avatar
- The Merman's Children
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