{"id":3068,"date":"2021-09-12T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2021-09-12T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:30:03","slug":"review-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3068","title":{"rendered":"Review: Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Genesis <\/em>is a novel that feels to me like a short story.  It&#8217;s an SF bottle movie (one location and one topic) with a little twist to it that is smart about its topic, but maybe a little longer than it needs to be.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That topic is Artificial Intelligence (AI) writ large, in the sense of what is a conscious entity and can humans create one.  The &#8220;will AIs replace replace us&#8221; trope appears, too, in kind of an interesting, understated way.  Because the story is all told indirectly it did make me engage in the story in some interesting ways.  I think it would make a great book club selection for some nerds, in that the questions it raises obliquely are more interesting than the plot on the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s some nice writing, and a good engaging structure to the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis is a novel that feels to me like a short story. It&#8217;s an SF bottle movie (one location and one topic) with a little twist to it that is smart about its topic, but maybe a little longer than it needs to be. That topic is Artificial Intelligence (AI) writ large, in the sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}