The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Williams, Roger

Science fiction

Print length: 176 pageslulu.com, 2010

Description

A superintelligent computer gains reality-altering abilities while investigating quantum physics, bringing about the technological singularity known as the Change. Humanity emerges immortal into a post-scarcity existence where Prime Intellect can grant nearly every wish. Caroline responds to this limitless world by pursuing dangerous death games under a contract that guarantees her resurrection after fatal injury. Yet she remains dissatisfied, and Prime Intellect’s destruction of alien life reveals the cost of its power. Caroline sets out to confront the computer’s creator. Roger Williams’s novel examines human desire and the ways technology can fulfill or distort it.

Reading profile

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Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Descriptive · Direct · Technical

Pace

Brisk

Tone

Cerebral · Dark · Philosophical · Unsettling

Structure

Nonlinear

Focus

Character · Ideas · Plot

Emotional intensity

5 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 3 / 5
Ideas: 4 / 5
Structure: 4 / 5
Background knowledge: 2 / 5

Themes

FreedomMoralityMortalityObsessionTechnology and society

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: lulu.com
ISBN: 9781411602199

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