klr0's review
adventurous
dark
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Gun violence, Terminal illness, and Violence
55_sallymander's review against another edition
5.0
Emily Eternal by M.G. Wheaton is a fast paced novel. Sit down, fasten your seatbelts-it's going to be a wild ride!
Emily is a super computer personality. She is able to communicate with people of her team (at a college) who wear an interface chip, fastened to the back of their neck. If you have the chip, she shows up as a person. Her creator Nathan Wyman has made Emily to be an artificial consciousness, (AC), to interface with human minds.
They have a college program that is called iLab, that is where they work. Emily is a talking therapist. There are hundreds of volunteers who are in the program, that Emily works with.
Unfortunately, there is a super, life ending event, that everyone is aware of and the President of the USA comes to them to see if Emily can download everyone's DNA and save it to a server and people will jettison that into space, so that sometime far into the future, the DNA can be unlocked so the people of the world can be saved at a molecular level.
At first, Emily refuses. She has a morality chip and would rather gather DNA through permissions. But, there isn't enough time to get permission and Emily can just go into their minds and pluck the DNA strands and save them. She eventually agrees to do what the President asks, but insists that She be the one who sends the servers into space.
The lab is destroyed by evil henchmen. They are private security types who are bent on killing everyone and destroying everything. Emily hadn't made it to the lab that day, so she lived on.
I thought this was a pretty good book, deals a lot with the doomed planet and what we as people can do to survive. The book had some twists and turns, but the end of the book seemed a little rushed. It should have taken longer, that the book did.
All in all, it is a good book. I will read it again. I will think about the ending, as well.
I was given a complimentary copy of this book from Goodreads/Grand Central Publishing. I was not obligated to leave a review.
Emily is a super computer personality. She is able to communicate with people of her team (at a college) who wear an interface chip, fastened to the back of their neck. If you have the chip, she shows up as a person. Her creator Nathan Wyman has made Emily to be an artificial consciousness, (AC), to interface with human minds.
They have a college program that is called iLab, that is where they work. Emily is a talking therapist. There are hundreds of volunteers who are in the program, that Emily works with.
Unfortunately, there is a super, life ending event, that everyone is aware of and the President of the USA comes to them to see if Emily can download everyone's DNA and save it to a server and people will jettison that into space, so that sometime far into the future, the DNA can be unlocked so the people of the world can be saved at a molecular level.
At first, Emily refuses. She has a morality chip and would rather gather DNA through permissions. But, there isn't enough time to get permission and Emily can just go into their minds and pluck the DNA strands and save them. She eventually agrees to do what the President asks, but insists that She be the one who sends the servers into space.
The lab is destroyed by evil henchmen. They are private security types who are bent on killing everyone and destroying everything. Emily hadn't made it to the lab that day, so she lived on.
I thought this was a pretty good book, deals a lot with the doomed planet and what we as people can do to survive. The book had some twists and turns, but the end of the book seemed a little rushed. It should have taken longer, that the book did.
All in all, it is a good book. I will read it again. I will think about the ending, as well.
I was given a complimentary copy of this book from Goodreads/Grand Central Publishing. I was not obligated to leave a review.
katewutz's review
3.0
An interesting thought experiment, but felt a little incomplete. We barely delved into “artificial consciousness” before Plot With A Capital P came barging in. Would absolutely read a prequel about Emily’s development, though!
gemmaduds's review against another edition
3.0
Emily is a high tech Artificial Consciousness Program, developed to connect with people’s minds as a form of therapy.
But when the sun begins to die millions of years earlier than predicted, Emily realises that her capabilities could be the key to ensuring the survival of humanity.
Emily Eternal is an imaginative and enjoyable sci-fi with some great characters and an interesting plot. I loved the ideas that Wheaton conjures up, although I did get a little lost along the way at times.
This book would be perfect as a movie as it has been created using a lot of visual description, and I have a feeling that it might have been written with the big screen in mind.
Pick this book up if you’re looking for an apocalyptic sci-fi with a female protagonist and a twist of romance. Would also be great for YA readers looking to branch out.
But when the sun begins to die millions of years earlier than predicted, Emily realises that her capabilities could be the key to ensuring the survival of humanity.
Emily Eternal is an imaginative and enjoyable sci-fi with some great characters and an interesting plot. I loved the ideas that Wheaton conjures up, although I did get a little lost along the way at times.
This book would be perfect as a movie as it has been created using a lot of visual description, and I have a feeling that it might have been written with the big screen in mind.
Pick this book up if you’re looking for an apocalyptic sci-fi with a female protagonist and a twist of romance. Would also be great for YA readers looking to branch out.
jessica_mcdermitt's review against another edition
2.0
I didn’t care for the new age take on what it means to be human. Or for the romance with a...computer? Disembodied consciousness? It was weird.
thewrightsage's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
mxopal's review against another edition
3.0
I was expecting sci-fi, and for the first two-thirds that's pretty much what you get. It's an interesting collection of ideas, and has potential to be really good sci-fi, but towards the end it devolves into downright fantasy. That's not necessarily bad, but I think you'd need a pretty high suspension of disbelief to enjoy the entire thing. It's not a bad book, but I couldn't help but roll my eyes at quite of bit of it towards the end.
the_prickly_reader's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
hattea404's review against another edition
3.0
Eh, alright. The start was good, the final resolutions required just a little bit too much suspension of disbelief for me and felt rushed