5/10/2023 0 Comments Existence by David BrinIt comes as little surprise given its very size to see the author started work on elements of it well over twenty years ago, and I'll state my claim now that if he has anything more to say about the nature of mankind and humanity that he has included here, then he truly is at the forefront of his genre. Make no bones about it, this is a hefty chunk of sci-fi. Where are the aliens that had previously been so silent while we sought for them with our Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence? What is the purpose and message behind this capsule? And who can be sure that this alleged First Contact was actually the first? Those with enough funds are completely wired into a virtual world, but wherever they live out their existence things are going to be changed, when a space-based labourer, clearing space junk from orbit, finds an alien artifact containing contact with various races in a sort of memory bank cum virtual reality. The world is buckling under climate change, and over-population. We are a few decades further into the 21st Century at the start of this sci-fi novel. Summary: A mammoth undertaking - for writer and reader - as the definitions of mankind get surveyed by this dense, literary but ultimately most worthwhile sci-fi.
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