I would never have thought that I would be interested in Swedish science fiction. But the success of Nordic detective novels, and especially thrillers, has sucked everyone else along in its wake. And so, for the third successive season Jesper Ersgård delight me listening with his "1986".
But I was somehow embarrassed that sometimes the characters are stupid, hysterical, and swearing and killing… Who will allow you, such an inharmonious and unbalanced person, to walk along different branches of reality, and even change something there? And then I thought, why do I think that the characters find themselves in the new world of 4D Plus, and what if we assume that these spaces are 4D Minus? And then everything worked out. Yeah, this is the same wheel of Samsara, only enhanced by AI. Truly, you really want to change these type of things.
One instance in particular that interests me is when the author insists that his characters make their own moral choices. Elias Werner faces a choice: to save one loved one or all of humanity. The death of his parents justifies by the need to save the majority. It is a conflict of ethics of the old times (the end justifies the means) and of the new times (unacceptable acts can never be committed under any conditions).
What did the hero choose? Read, or rather listen (there is only an audio version of the book). There’s still a lot of interesting stuff.