Genre: Adult, Science Fiction
Source: I received a copy to facilitate my review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I love meeting people who have creative minds. This author definitely has one. The idea of a society putting all of their faith in decision-making into the hands of a machine is actually terrifying to me. I say this because a machine begins with man. Even if the artificial intelligence is capable of learning, you know there has to be a glitch at some point. Then we become man vs machine. As I was growing up we had sci-fi movies that would give scenarios like this and it was never good. I have to say this book goes above and beyond. You have two sides of the issue a machine that has decided to wipe out an entire planet and people who believe in this machine. Then you have the side that has taken a step back and decides that the machine doesn’t necessarily know what is best. They will risk everything to stop it. Because of what I am teaching in school right now my mind began to draw parallels. My English 1 class is reading the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel. One question the students kept asking was how people could just blindly follow Hitler? They also wanted to know why those who knew it was wrong didn’t step up? It was the same with this book. People in both cases reached a point where it was easier to blindly follow. Those who decided to do something, willingly took the risk, knowing what the cost could be.
The characters were well developed. The worldbuilding was wonderful. I was there. That is why it seemed so realistic and possible to me. In this day and age with technology being ramped up the way it has it makes you wonder if we will ever be stupid enough to turn our world over to a machine? Just asking.
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