Chimera (Salt Modern Fiction)

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Humans live their lives plugged into virtual reality, entertained so accepting of this limited lifestyle. Following logic, it would then mean that the reader cannot trust literally anything to have actually happened as described. The Book Collector throws the essential elements of the gothic chiller into a blender and what emerges is something between pastiche and critique, in which its author never loses sight of the need to give her readers, first and foremost, an unputdownable yarn. The Earth that she set out to save is an environmental wasteland ruled by an oligarchy of tech corporations and populated by people hooked on the AI-created virtual realities they sell. But Mission Control have hinted that her knowledge will be vital when the ship reaches its destination.

The world-building, for example, very tenuous, but also not really doing enough metaphor work to be theme-forward instead. When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the whereabouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers of deceptions and disappearances that lead him inexorably back to an unsolved mystery in his own past: the loss of his young daughter Emily. Alice Thompson's gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. It is a profound exploration of human truth (and AI future) that stays with you, asking the question of what is real, and what is not real in one’s own life. Synopsis Alice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros.The mission is to look for micro-organisms that might alleviate the critical levels of carbon dioxide on Earth. Dreams being such a prominent motif, the novel’s uncomfortable sense of dislocation is both blurred and heightened by a hallucinatory otherworldliness, and once the crew have reached Oneiros to find an AI-created virtual reality awaiting them it becomes harder than ever to say for sure what’s real and what isn’t. The Book Collector throws the essential elements of the gothic chiller into a blender and what emerges is something between pastiche and critique, in which its author never loses sight of the need to give her readers, first and foremost, an un-put-down-able yarn. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.

We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. Please get in touch and we will do our best to source your book, no matter how unusual or specialist.It's not a fast paced sci Fi thriller, it builds it's momentum to leave an absolutely insane ending. Set in a not-so-distant future, Alice Thompson's eighth work of fiction, Chimera, is just that: a chimera of a novel. Her ship, the Chimera has been sent to look for organisms that will help assuage Earth's global warming, but it be. The synopsis doesn't touch on anything that would make you think it's tying in themes of mythos and I'm unsure if that's the intent or not, so hence my prefaces so future readers hopefully feel satisfied of this genre blend.

Her ship, the Chimera, has been sent to look for organisms that will help assuage Earth’s global warming, but it becomes clear on the journey that there are other disturbing reasons for the mission. Artemis is one of the few to have been trusted with the knowledge that this is the second mission sent, and that Mission Control wishes to know what became of the first. Her ship, the Chimera has been sent to look for organisms that will help assuage Earth’s global warming, but it becomes clear on the journey that there are other disturbing reasons for the mission. This is a simple yet clever tale, gently satirising literary ambition as it explores the darker sources of inspiration, and told with all the supernatural horror of the best Hammer stories. The reasons being unfold over time, but the main points, it's how dreams and consciousness, desire, humanity all share the same root to Dreams.

The crew is made up of a mix of humans and dryads (a hybrid of programmed computer and cloned human DNA) – with the mix of human to robot in each varying. We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. Considering especially the horrible ending of original Artemis, that ends up negating a lot of the emotional impact thus far.