elusivity's review
4.0
Peter Watts - Giants
Hakim is woken with the one crew left who is still fully connected with the ship AI. They are faced with an unchangeable trajectory into a mesh of a red star tangled with an ice giant. As they go through, risking constant uncertainty and death... something seemingly sentient start to strip the ship's eyes and hammering on its door.
Hakim is woken with the one crew left who is still fully connected with the ship AI. They are faced with an unchangeable trajectory into a mesh of a red star tangled with an ice giant. As they go through, risking constant uncertainty and death... something seemingly sentient start to strip the ship's eyes and hammering on its door.
Spoiler
The main conflict is between Hakim and the protagonist (Viktor Heinwald). Did they weather a genuine life-threatening event together? Or did the AI engineered it, as Hakim suspects, as a way for the AI through Viktor to rebuild trust with the rest of the crew? Is it as Viktor believes, the ship AI is built to be not too smart, and being linked to it simply means a human is augmented with more knowledge and abilities, rather than being overtaken and subsumed by the machine as the others believe and fear.
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