Dark Intelligence
(Transformation #1)
by Neal Asher
science fiction
copyright 2015
read in August 2015
rated 6/10: read to pass the time
Sure, this is Neal Asher doing what he does so well... Super science, death and reincarnation, large scale destruction. It just lacks the humanity.
There are humans. They are dwarfed by the aliens and the AIs. It's hard to get interested in characters who are simply pawns of the super powerful AIs.
Perhaps there is a problem because I am reading this book on a screen ? When I wonder, who is this character ? it's too difficult to flick back a few pages to remind myself... So I miss some of the flow of some of the many parallel plots...
As usual, the AIs are as human as anyone... Well, except for the central driver of the story. He (it?) is powerful and mysterious. That's the point of the story, I guess: what is the ultimate purpose of this powerful AI ?
Finally, all is revealed... A satisfactory ending. Yet with no real involvement of reader -- this reader, anyway -- with the characters. So, satisfactory but so what...
Even the science is, even more than usual, over the top.
The science, the Polity, the action -- still good. The characters -- human and otherwise -- don't have a proper chance to grab my sympathies.
Fun to read but not the best by Asher.
Jules Renard (as quoted in GMail) - "Laziness is not
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