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Weapons-Grade
When war machines outsmart their creators, humanity's very survival comes under attack. A chain reaction that begins with an AI's existential crisis threatens to bring about the end of the world. "The Handmaid’s Tale" meets "Metal Gear" meets "The Diamond Age" meets "Her" set in a near-future postwar dystopian America, "Weapons-Grade" is the story of what we lose—and gain—when we trade humanity for technology.
445 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 3, 2017
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July 16, 2019
Good story, too many plots, dialogues need work.
In the line above, I synthesize my thoughts. I love the story, and the work on Anna and the other IAs. I like most characters, but some feel a bit rushed, some, like Desi, I feel a bit too exaggerated, people usually are not that thoughtful of themselves or the situations, that is better for only a few characters or a narrator.
I know all the plots all go toward the same end, which in general is a very Deus Ex Machina ending, which renders most plots without a resolution, personally, I did not like that. The story and its plots are crazy, and I like the work on it, just not an of the ending.
My biggest bias about this book are the dialogues. I know in some place the author tries to be humorous or realistic, because yes, people sometimes talk like that... however, that is the problem as dialogues are set one needs a balance between being realistic and being interesting. Some of the dialogues felt due to that irritating, taking away from the story instead of adding. Maybe some were there to mark certain people as assholes, but they made feel false, exaggerated. Especially when it is about old references if you are going to toss them old songs, series, movies... then have either the people understanding them, it tracks down when no one knows, and the character needs to explain as to the reader to understand...most readers do not care about that.
In the line above, I synthesize my thoughts. I love the story, and the work on Anna and the other IAs. I like most characters, but some feel a bit rushed, some, like Desi, I feel a bit too exaggerated, people usually are not that thoughtful of themselves or the situations, that is better for only a few characters or a narrator.
I know all the plots all go toward the same end, which in general is a very Deus Ex Machina ending, which renders most plots without a resolution, personally, I did not like that. The story and its plots are crazy, and I like the work on it, just not an of the ending.
My biggest bias about this book are the dialogues. I know in some place the author tries to be humorous or realistic, because yes, people sometimes talk like that... however, that is the problem as dialogues are set one needs a balance between being realistic and being interesting. Some of the dialogues felt due to that irritating, taking away from the story instead of adding. Maybe some were there to mark certain people as assholes, but they made feel false, exaggerated. Especially when it is about old references if you are going to toss them old songs, series, movies... then have either the people understanding them, it tracks down when no one knows, and the character needs to explain as to the reader to understand...most readers do not care about that.
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