Sci-fi

Implied Spaces

by Walter Jon Williams
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Description

Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself! Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmessa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
CombatSkirmish-Heavy
HorrorCreepy

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Details

First published
June 2008
Pages
264
Reading time
About 5 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Language
English
ISBN
9781597801256
Series
Standalone

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