Grande Jonction

by Dantec

Link de Nova ne se contentait pas de redonner vie aux machines. Les machines, en retour, veillaient sur sa vie. Il était seul. Seul comme un homme face à une armée de bulldozers sauvages.

Un western aux portes de l’infini. Après Les Racines du mal, Babylon Babies, Villa Vortex et Cosmos Incorporated ,
Maurice G. Dantec poursuit son exploration du monde du futur, au cœur d’une œuvre toujours plus envoûtante.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Ebooks, Fantasy, France, Dystopia

896 pages, Pocket Book

First published August 23, 2006

Reviews

[Joe · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started out all right but became so weighted down with pseudo-techno babble about language and Christianity that I couldn't finish it. A shame, because I found Cosmos, Inc. to be enjoyable despite some of the same flaws.

[Trace Reddell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I sit down to review this with Bowie's "Saviour Machine" blasting in my head. Surprised it wasn't one of the chapter titles used throughout this rock'n'roll novel. I don't know if many other readers would consider this "amazing," and I'm stingy with my fifth star reviews, but I do feel like this book was written for me, to me, and even a little bit about me. An odd effect, for sure. It worked its way into my dreams, my outlook on the contemporary, increasingly apocalyptic (a word I have little patience for when bandied about lightly) world around me, machinic non-individuated icesand mixture of so-called people-as-parts around me in a neoecological, endlessly recyclable, anti-economy with the AI androids shouting out, "welcome, my son, welcome to the machine!" Look what they've done to my song, ma!

It's worked its way into my diary entries, like this one: "AI create empathy voids. Look at what they've done to so-called social media. Accelerated the socius into a machine devoid of actual connection and meaningful co-creation / re-creation. Echo chambers of ideas-turned-into-images-turned-into-single-channeled-performances -- all void of real empathy, real dialogue." "Add a comment." "Ask me anything." Dantec pits music (which uses machines, including the Ur-machine, electricity, and even one that endlessly recycles genius cliché, that is, riffs) against the machine. Music heals language. Here's hoping.

"You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine."

[Paschalis]

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[Mr. Bookworm · Rating 1 out of 5]

dnf. the writer is pretentious and meandering.

[Kevin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very bizarre. Some of the concepts were interesting (to the extent I understood them), but it was a very difficult read. The author's mix of technology and metaphysics was too much for my little brain and neither the characters nor the plot came to the rescue.

[Lapetitesteph]

Bien.

[Fred · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lecture aride. L'idée est bonne, mais ce n'est pas très accessible.

[Laura D · Rating 1 out of 5]

Couldn't get into this - I gave it an hour and gave up. Generally I like post-apocalyptic stories, but this didn't work for me.