The Mountain in the Sea A Novel
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Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
04.10.2022
Verlag
Farrar, Straus and GirouxSeitenzahl
464 (Printausgabe)
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8780 KB
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Englisch
EAN
9780374605964
*WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE
"The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly original, gorgeously written, unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler is one of the most exciting new voices I've read in years."
-Blake Crouch, author of Upgrade and Dark Matter
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.
The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. She travels to the islands to join DIANIMA's team: a battle-scarred securityagent and the world's first (and possibly last) android.
The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves.
But no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. Or what they might do about it.
A near-future thriller, a meditation on the nature of consciousness, and an eco-logical call to arms, Ray Nayler's dazzling literary debut The Mountain in the Sea is a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind's legacy.
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The main merit of this book lies perhaps not in the story it tells, but in the author's reflections, on humanity, on freedom of choice and on the influence of people on the world around them. The novel devotes much attention to the problem of the development of artificial intelligence and the dangers it poses. Yet, ultimately, Ray Nayler vividly demonstrates to the reader that the greatest threat to humanity is neither artificial intelligence nor another sentient species, but human beings themselves. For a human, there is no one more dangerous than another human. So if you like science fiction with a lot of philosophical digressions, but not devoid of a gripping plot, and if you liked the movie "Arrival", then I highly recommend you read the novel "The Mountain in the Sea".
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