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Permutation City

De : Greg Egan
Lu par : Adam Epstein
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The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly.

The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the you that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy.

The good news is that there is a way out. By law, every Copy has the option of terminating itself, and waking up to normal flesh-and-blood life again. The bail-out is on the utilities menu. You pull it down...The bad news is that it doesn't work. Someone has blocked the bail-out option. And you know who did it. You did. The other you. The real you. The one that wants to keep you here forever.

©2013 Greg Egan (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Naturwissenschaften Postapokalyptisch Science Fiction

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Greg Egan concocts a fascinating and thought-provoking novel that explores the role of technology in creating alternate realities, blurring the lines between what is "real" and what isn't. In this future world of globalized economy and devastating climate change, Paul Durham has scanned multiple "Copies" of himself into his computer and becomes entangled with Maria, an Autoverse aficionado. Egan raises interesting questions about artificial intelligence and morality within a technological world, and it's a high concept that is brought to life by Adam Epstein, whose measured performance and faintly rumbling voice adds a palpable and dramatic intrigue to Permutation City.
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Der Sprecher hat einen seltsamen Singsang, die Geschichte ist aber super interessant und regt zum Nachdenken an:

Geschichte super, Sprecher naja

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If you like David Deutsch, Fabrik of Reality. These 2 works complement each other in some ways and stretch your imagination guaranteed. This is seminal. I will check out as much as I can from Greg Egan.

blew my mind

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I had heard this novel was very good and worth listening to, and it lived up to that. The story is captivating, and it handles the simulation concepts with the right amount of complexity, detailed enough to be convincing without becoming hard to follow. It also hints at the ethical aspects and paradoxes of "Copies".

The narration has a steady style.

Great story

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The story itself is great, fans of hard sci-fi and cyberpunk are in for a treat. Realistic AI, psychology, mind uploading, cellular automata, fringe mathematics, surprise twists, ... Egan clearly knows his stuff and tells it well.

The choice of narrator is very unfortunate, though. Every sentence has the same "melody" - da Dah da Dah, da DAH da! As if there was an obligatory moment of mild surprise at the end of every single sentence, regardless of context or content. It never varies, and even though it isn't strictly monotone, the effect is the same. I won't even comment about the inappropriate accents, bad as they are, they're insignificant compared to the overall abysmal narration style. Also unfortunate that almost all of Egan's other audiobooks use the same narrator. I won't be buying any of them, but I may very well read the books the old-fashioned way.

I though about just returning this audiobook, but the story is good enough to put up with the awful narration. It gets easier to ignore after a while - just like (pre-AI) text-to-speech takes some time to get used to, you'll get used to the narrator's da-Dah-da sing-song and mentally add the correct emphasis yourself. But still, I struggle to imagine anyone hearing this guy talk and thinking it would be a good idea to let him narrate books...

Mid 90s hard sci-fi gem, badly narrated

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Ich hab zuerst das Buch gelesen um dann nochmal das Audiobook zu hören. Die Geschichte ist richtig richtig gut .. aber der Sprecher ist einfach so unterirdisch schlecht. Wieso wird der Deutsche mit russischen Akzent gesprochen, wieso wird Elisabeth mit indischen Akzent gesprochen. Warum wird alles so monoton gesprochen. Ich hab noch nie ein Audiobuch gehört bei dem die Qualität der Geschichte und die Qualität des Sprechers so weit auseinander liegen, einfach nur wow.

Best Story, worst speaker

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