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Damien Broderick has been a leading Australian SF writer since the ‘70s. His novel The Dreaming Dragons was listed in SF: the 100 best novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Spike, is a mind-stretching look at the wonders of the high-tech future. Now in Transcension he brings to life one of the futures he imagined in The Spike, a world pervaded by nanotechnology and governed by artificial intelligence. Transcension may be Broderick’s best book yet.
Amanda is a brilliant violinist, a mathematical genius, and a rebel. Impatient for the adult status her society only grants at age thirty, but determined to have a real adventure first, she has repeatedly gotten into trouble and found herself in the courtroom of Magistrate Mohammed Abdel-Malik, the sole resurrectee from among those who were frozen in the early twenty-first century, the man whose mind was the seed for Aleph, the AI that rules this utopia.
Mathewmark is a real adolescent, living in the last place where they still exist, the reservation known as the Valley of the God of One's Choice, where those who have chosen faith over technology are allowed to live out their simpler lives. When Amanda determines that access to the valley is the key to the daring stunt she plans, it is Mathewmark she will have to lead into temptation.
But just as Amanda, Mathewmark, and Abdel-Malik are struggling to find themselves and achieve their potentials, so is Aleph, and the AI's success will be a challenge to them and all of humanity.
- Sales Rank: #2885574 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Tor Books
- Published on: 2003-03-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.36" h x 1.06" w x 5.56" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Amazon.com Review
In Transcension, Damien Broderick extrapolates a powerful science fiction novel from aspects of his speculative-science nonfiction book, The Spike, and creates a fascinating world at the edge of profound transformation.
In the near future, the brilliant lawyer/cybernetician Mohammed Kasim Abdel-Malik is killed by street thugs, but his body is rushed into cryonic suspension. His mind becomes the source for the Aleph, an artificial intelligence that will rule the world.
In the Aleph-ruled technotopia, Amanda Kolby-McAllister is a math and music genius who's almost 30, but she's trapped in adolescence by law and nanotech. Rebellious and bored, she attempts to catch an illegal and highly dangerous ride on the back of a subterranean Maglev freighter. Arrested, Amanda swears before the revived Abdel-Malik, now a Magistrate, that she will never again sneak into a Maglev hangar. But she conceives of another way to ride the supersonic train by entering the tunnel through a ventilation shaft in the Valley of the God of One's Choice--where outsiders are forbidden.
Mathewmark, who is a genuine adolescent, lives in the Valley of the God of One's Choice. Devout Luddites, the Valley inhabitants are outraged because the Maglev has opened a blasphemous vent into their Valley, but Mathewmark is more intrigued than disturbed, and his curiosity opens a way for Amanda to lead him into temptation. He helps her enter the Valley and the vent, with consequences that will bring them together with Abdel-Malik and the Aleph, and may completely change existence on Earth. --Cynthia Ward
From Publishers Weekly
Anyone who can't imagine grinning at the end of life as we know it should skip this book, but it'll be fun for people self-confident enough to imagine a lighthearted fusion of Clarke's Childhood's End and the movie Clueless. When Amanda, an adventurous adolescent girl, wanders into the life and mind of Mathewmark, a young man living in the Valley of the God of One's Choice, a low-tech, religious enclave, the two are soon on the bumpy road to romance. Meanwhile, the resurrected version of a scientist who'd been attempting to create artificial intelligence observes and attempts to judge what he sees in this fractured future. He's aware that an AI controls the world and may even have created the sensations that convince him there is a world out there. So should he be afraid? Angry? How should he feel when the AI begins to evolve into something else, changing the nature of humanity, too? As for Mathewmark and Amanda, they misunderstand each other, make fools of themselves and feel real pain, but also discover that change is more exciting than frightening. Australian author Broderick (The Dreaming Dragons) sees how silly individual humans can be, especially when they choose to stay isolated. However, he also believes that technology gives us fresh possibilities for unity and growth. By the end, the young people's gusto is contagious, and readers can feel confident that we'll all be able to cope with new challenges.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-Chronologically 30, but emotionally and physically an adolescent, Amanda radiates brilliance and beauty, as could only be expected from the product of the ultramodern world Metro. Bored out of her mind, she goes looking for fun and stumbles across a handful of dusty, robotic advertising bees. One by one, she reprograms them and sends them flying over to the Valley of the God of One's Choice-a place left back in time where no evil machines are allowed. There, Matthewmark, an almost painfully earnest teen, becomes the target of her mischief until she comes clean. They decide to meet in the Valley near a ventilation shaft for the Metro Polis Maglev transportation system; he tries to follow her back to the Metro with disastrous results. In the background is a godlike artificial intelligence shoving an unwitting humanity toward its next evolutionary leap. This uber-intelligence becomes focused on the pair when they start displaying an unusual connectivity. The tongue-in-cheek humor throughout the book is a delight. Pranks, spoofs of human foibles modern and archaic, and an unforgettable Metro mall scene will keep readers grinning. Hard-core sci-fi fans won't want to miss Broderick's afterword in which he discusses the science that inspired his book.
Sheila Shoup, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Most helpful customer reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
The quite bearable lightness of the Singularity
By M. LATORRA
Many readers with an interest in transhumanist ideas such as the technological Singularity will already be familiar with Mr. Broderick's non-fiction book, The Spike. That was a book of big ideas about our possible future aimed at a general audience willing to do some serious reading. Unfortunately, the audience for serious reading is much smaller than the audience for "fun" reading, which is to say for fiction reading, where a good story with interesting characters will hold the reader's attention. Those characters and their story can then carry a large load of big ideas, which the fiction audience might otherwise refuse to read. I am happy to report that Broderick's novel Transcension succeeds in carrying lightly some very heavy ideas, indeed.
At its core, Transcension is a love story. Employing the classic model-boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl (and vice versa, of course)-Broderick tells his tale with humor, excitement and poignancy. Some really big ideas underlie the action: ubiquitous computing, cryonics, extreme life extension, microchip implants, Artificial Intelligence, and mind uploading, as well as the social idea of enclaves in which various levels of technology are either allowed or forbidden. But these ideas seem, for the most part, to be simply a background that many readers may ignore until very late in the book. Charmed by the story and having grown attached to the main characters, these readers will simply keeping turning pages to find out what happens next.
Astute readers, however, will not ignore the subtle signs dropped along the way like breadcrumbs leading through a forest of distracting events to a most wonderful conclusion.
Three-Body Problem
Ignoring those breadcrumbs for the moment, we turn to the three major characters in this novel: Amanda Kolby-McAlister, a bright, bored "pender," (that is, a neotonous pre-adult, eagerly anticipating her coming legal maturity at age 30 in the high-tech metropolis of Van Gogh); Mathewmark Fischer, a curious but stifled young man who hauls goods by mule-drawn cart in the anti-tech enclave of the Valley of the God of your Choice; and finally, Magistrate Mohammed Kasim Abdel-Malek, a computer scientist turned lawyer and then judge in Van Gogh, whose background contains more than a little mystery.
Fine Structure Constant
The structure of the book consists of individual chapters titled with 1) a number and 2) the name of the character speaking in the first person in that chapter. The chapters are grouped into several sections. Each section begins with an epigraph from such notables as Bill Joy (whose epigraph includes an internal quotation from Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber), Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Eugen Leitl.
The three major characters do most of the talking. For the most part, we see the story unfold through their eyes. Late in the book, we begin to see some of the story through the eyes of a host of minor characters. But there is one big exception: the very first chapter is written from the point of view of "the Aleph," a self-described "machine mentality" who introduces verself and then virtually disappears for quite a few pages.
Original Sim
Let's look for that trail of breadcrumbs again. Among all those book chapters titled with the names of the characters through whose eyes we see the story events, there is a discontinuous series of anomalous chapters. These numbered chapters, titled "Seed Origin," seem quite mysterious and out-of-place at first. Astute readers should not ignore these clues, however, for they are the keys that open up to a wonderful finale.
Up, Down, Strange and Charmed
Readers who expect a straight line to transcenion for the characters in Broderick's novel will be surprised by the many ups and downs, and the several strange events in this thoroughly charming story. Compared to Broderick's The Spike, this is truly a quark of a different color. Readers will get so wrapped up in caring about the characters that when the transcension events finally take place, we are almost startled by them.
Welcome to the Machine
I recommend Transcension as a thumping good read for anyone who enjoys science fiction. It's "hard SF" yet without the coldness of character that too often keeps readers away from some really good books. Transcension is especially appropriate for people who only want deep ideas if those ideas are first fished up, cleaned, cooked and then served on a steaming platter with savories. If you know anyone like that, tell them about this book. It could save you much time and breath explaining transhumanist ideas to them. Let Transcension do that for you with humor and charm.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Very Readable Hard Science Fiction
By Kevin Spoering
Damien Broderick must be loaded with lots of witticisms and just plain tons of good old common sense because this novel is loaded with these things. And when I say 'common sense', this is not the type your typical good ole boy down the street has, but is instead a 'sense' of what is intrinsically true or false, not what the average person believes. Yeah, of course someday, perhaps 100-200 years from now, the ideas portrayed in this book will be widely accepted, but not yet, but this, to many people, is what science fiction is all about, to allow gifted and intelligent writers to let us see some of the possibilities in store for our future, good and bad, in an entertaining format. This novel does very well in terms of the above, giving us a glimpse of the future, perhaps unsettling to some with their conservative world-views.
Broderick writes here of a medium term future where an enclave of religious believers (who live in a primitive state and distrust technology) exist in a world that is largely secular. Science has indefinitely extended life spans and for the most part eliminated the barbarity of death, and mind uploading and biostasis has been used succesfully, along with many other things. Amanda of the modern world, who is just becoming an adult, Mathewmark of the religious encalve, and Abdel-Malek, a magistrate in the modern world, are the principle characters. How they interact with each other, considering their backgrounds, makes excellent reading, as plot and character development are first rate.
In this novel Broderick shows us how a very advanced artificial intelligence could manipulate us, possibly for our own good, and he also includes a paradigm shift brought about by the advent of a 'singularity' of rapid technological advancement, and parts of a culture transformed almost totally, but with others clinging to the old ways.
TRANSCENSION is full of future possibilities, with an abundance of rational imagination and humor, had me laughing many times, it is worth 10 stars. Check out THE SPIKE by this same writer if you are interested in non-fiction speculation of a technological 'singularity'.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Stylistically annoying
By Paul Magnussen
Well, I seem to be in the minority, but this one just didn't do it for me, and not just because the plot appears to be recycled Arthur C. Clarke. Nor do I have any particular objection to godlike AIs (although this one seems to be just about omnipotent).
Rather, the problems lie in the style.
In the first place, the story is told pretty much in the first person, switching protagonist as events demand. These switches are clearly labelled, but often the story switches to third person as well, a mechanism I found clumsy.
Most irritating, though, is that the narrative of Amanda (one of the two main characters) is told almost entirely in her deferred-teenage slang, the salient feature of which is the omission of virtually all articles and prepositions, so that it resembles a sort of literally-translated Russian, only worse. I found it very, very wearing to read. Neither did I find Amanda herself a convincing character; it takes more to portray a musician and her concerns than listing a bunch of violin concertos accurately.
More interesting was the religious enclave that has voluntarily renounced technology, rather like the Amish; although they're referred to in the book, rather inaccurately, as Luddites (the original Luddites didn't have anything against technology per se, they just didn't want to be put out of work). A nice touch is that they don't realise that a lot of their environment is technologically altered anyway (like the obviously genetically engineered mule Ebeeneezer, who for me is the most sympathetic character in the book). I rather liked Matthewmark, as well.
But on balance, I can't recommend this. Don't take my word for it, read the other reviews.
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