On 7/25/2019 8:02 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:48 PM John Clark <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
When I was younger I read a lot of science fiction, I don't do it
so much anymore and technically I didn't do it this time either
but I did listen to a audio book called "We Are Legion We Are Bob"
it's the first book of the Bobiverse trilogy and I really enjoyed
it. You can get a free 5 minute sample of the book here:
We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1
<https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/B01L082SCI/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=>
It tells the story of Bob, a young man who has just sold his
software company for a crazy amount of money and decides that
after a decade of hard work he's going to spent the rest of his
life just goofing off. On a whim he signs with a Cryonics company
to have his head frozen after his death and then just hours later
while crossing the street to go to a science fiction convention is
hit by a car and dies. Five subjective seconds later he wakes up
and finds that a century has passed and he's been uploaded into a
computer. This is all in the opening chapter.
Parts of the story are unrealistic but parts of it are not, I
think it was Isaac Asimov who said it's OK for a science fiction
writer to violate the known laws of physics but only if he knows
he's doing it, and when Dennis Taylor, the creator of Bob
universe, does it at one point with faster than light
communication it's obvious that he knowns it. And I can't deny it
makes for a story that is more fun to read. I have now read (well
listened) to all 3 Bob books and, although parts are a little
corny and parts a little too Star Trek for my taste, on the whole
I greatly enjoyed them all. They're a lot of fun.
The only other novel I can think of that treats the subject of
uploading with equal intelligence is "The Silicon Man".
The Silicon Man by Charles Platt
<https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Man-Cortext-Charles-Platt/dp/1888869143>
John K Clark
Consider any of the earlier novels by Greg Egan, the Australian hard
science fiction write based in Perth, WA: particularly "Permutation
City" (1994).
And you can learn a lot about black holes from Egan's website. He does
serious visual simulation too. I've read several of his novels,
including "Permutation City" but I liked his short story collection
"Axiomatic" best.
Brent
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