A review by 55_sallymander
Emily Eternal by M.G. Wheaton
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.