Even God Herself By Chris T. Armstrong
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God HerselfRead this book for your own sake and for the sake of humankind: 'Nothing to lose but our limitations and our suffering.' A truly other-worldly experience and a lot of fun. Drama, deicide, romance, sex (2.0), humour, peace, love, HOPE—what’s not to like ?! Chris has
produced a book that's fizzing with important ideas, strong characters, and themes that are core to the future of humanity. The narrative contains versions of key exchanges of viewpoints that often arise during real-world gatherings of futurists and transhumanists - versions that are provocative, insightful, and engaging . I foresee that in the years to come, real-world conversations will, in turn, often refer back to the dialogues and actions in Even God Herself.
Different readers will likely reach a variety of conclusions about which parts of the plot are credible and which part are more hypothetical. But in all cases, minds will be stretched, in very healthy ways! I'm more of a trashhumanist than a Transhumanist. I love the trashiness of humanity, and think it's really what we're all about. But I do keep up with Transhumanism, because a good science fiction writer needs to know what's going on. And you never know where you'll find something you can steal--I mean, be inspired by. EVEN GOD HERSELF was recommended by Transhumanist guru Zoltan Istvan, and they were giving it away free, so I went for it. It's an interesting book, very weird, and often funny, but not necessarily the way the author intended. It proposes the usual Transhumanist agenda of immortality through uploading the mind into a computers and downloading it into android bodies (old stuff in sci-fi) and there are means to control brain states, and de-animalize the species. (Sigh. Being an animal is so much fun.) Luddite doubters do some assassinating, but that only allows the heroine and her girlfriend to Transhumanize. They do still have humor thanks to GrouchoBot9000, who is like Groucho, but without his grouchiness, so he's not all that funny. The technology, and some helpful extraterrestrials establishe a nerdgasmic utopia. Despite it all, most of what happens in the novel is talk about how wonderful it would be, like a long informercial for a new cult. There are those laughs. And I wonder, what if we could connect with out animal roots and high tech future at the same time?
produced a book that's fizzing with important ideas, strong characters, and themes that are core to the future of humanity. The narrative contains versions of key exchanges of viewpoints that often arise during real-world gatherings of futurists and transhumanists - versions that are provocative, insightful, and engaging . I foresee that in the years to come, real-world conversations will, in turn, often refer back to the dialogues and actions in Even God Herself.
Different readers will likely reach a variety of conclusions about which parts of the plot are credible and which part are more hypothetical. But in all cases, minds will be stretched, in very healthy ways! I'm more of a trashhumanist than a Transhumanist. I love the trashiness of humanity, and think it's really what we're all about. But I do keep up with Transhumanism, because a good science fiction writer needs to know what's going on. And you never know where you'll find something you can steal--I mean, be inspired by. EVEN GOD HERSELF was recommended by Transhumanist guru Zoltan Istvan, and they were giving it away free, so I went for it. It's an interesting book, very weird, and often funny, but not necessarily the way the author intended. It proposes the usual Transhumanist agenda of immortality through uploading the mind into a computers and downloading it into android bodies (old stuff in sci-fi) and there are means to control brain states, and de-animalize the species. (Sigh. Being an animal is so much fun.) Luddite doubters do some assassinating, but that only allows the heroine and her girlfriend to Transhumanize. They do still have humor thanks to GrouchoBot9000, who is like Groucho, but without his grouchiness, so he's not all that funny. The technology, and some helpful extraterrestrials establishe a nerdgasmic utopia. Despite it all, most of what happens in the novel is talk about how wonderful it would be, like a long informercial for a new cult. There are those laughs. And I wonder, what if we could connect with out animal roots and high tech future at the same time?
Chris T. Armstrong