Getting into David Marusek’s MIND OVER SHIP (Tor)

Now 2/3 through. Definitely going to finish. Mind-bending array of clone families, dangerous AIs, and distributed consciousnesses. (Although Terry Pratchett’s Granny Weatherwax thought of the latter twist first …)

I hate imagined futures where regular humans are vastly outnumbered by new types of clones and AIs. I don’t get the narcissistic appeal of having millions of versions of myself spanning future time and space. My genome has its good points, but I’d certainly want to take another roll of the dice to see if we can come up without a model that has the severe myopia, the short temper, the designed-to-fail knees, and the recessive alcoholism, depression and hypothyroidism, among other things …

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