Author: Alexander C. Irvine
Publisher: Tor.com
Released: March 31, 2020
Received: Library
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Book Summary:
In a not-so-distant future, the world is falling apart. Monsters and artificial intelligence alike have created no end to humanity’s problems. In truth, even AI doesn’t understand the role it has to play in this new world.
Enter Prospector Ed, an AI program that explores human legend and history to understand what happened. It’ll need help to put all the pieces together, and even then, it may not be enough.
My Review:
Sometimes, a book I’ve been really excited about ends up not being for me. Unfortunately, Anthropocene Rag is one of those books. I’ll add a small caveat: I probably should have read this book sooner or waited longer to read it. My mind was not in the right headspace for Anthropocene Rag, so it’s partially my fault.
On the surface, I love the idea of Anthropocene Rag – an AI digging into human legends and lore to try and understand itself? Yes, please! But in reality, I wasn’t all that enchanted with the follow-through.
Part of the problem is that I struggled to keep track of the characters. Again, maybe it’s because my head wasn’t in the right place, but I kept losing them. It didn’t help that they could change forms as needed. I couldn’t keep up (I think there’s some level of irony there).
At the end of the day, I’m just not sure what to say about Anthropocene Rag. It was okay, if a bit confusing at times. While I’m happy to have finally read it, I wish it resonated better with me, or vice versa.
Highlights:
- Science Fiction
- Speculative Fiction
- Dystopian
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