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Middle of the book becomes an arc of theories and discoveries. It’s really beautiful actually.

Honestly I wonder if there’s always a moment in science fictions where I speculate if the story is about artificial intelligence. But maybe the great joy of sci-fi, generally, is speculating on the actual subject of the story. What it’s “about.” This all happened for me in chapter 5.

Actually an amazing complement to When We Cease to Understand the World.

The narrative is told in first-person by a pure mathematician. He starts the whole thing in a sort of elitist manner launching platitudes about his own career and how unsettling his discipline is to the sciences and humanities; it took a few pages to disengage from them and recognize that this was the character’s voice and not definitive. It then takes these philosophical highs and farcical lows. Lost, vintage wit.