Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: The potential of uniting soldiers minds or to pimp single individuals minds to ingenious killer machines might seem attractive at the first moment, but I subjectively deem that full automation with oil instead of blood flowing in masses over the battlefield of the future, might be the more realistic option, because too much can go wrong with genetic engineering and nano drugs Castle Wolfenstein style.īond style superagents are, of course, something else, and investing in quality instead of quantity, cloning, and mass manufacturing and perfecting the next evolutionary step for targeted killing and industrial espionage might be the bigger next thing than breeding the perfect extermination machine. Überhumans, the wet dream of both industries and militaries all around the world, would of course also love such a technology which leads to the question of who will first use it on a large scale, Western democracies, pure patriarchic dictatorships, or communist authoritarian states.

I don´t know anything about Naam´s personal ideology and faith, but how he deals with the idea of how such a mind uniting technology might change religion and be most interesting for Buddhists, is an interesting mind game to expand and think about. I have a feeling of a bit of a Clarke and Lem reminiscence in some of the monologues, inner perspectives, and general thoughts about identity and ethics, something the other mentioned authors are skipping to focus on the technological and action aspect. Naam is an exception, as he had already made a career as a computer scientist before he wrote this amazing trilogy, whose first two novels I can fully recommend trying out. These new technothriller action post cyberpunk authors with action, philosophy, and innuendos are hells of reading rides, Naam, Suarez, Sakey, and other new ones know their target audience and let science, near future scenarios, cool settings, badass characters, and fast paced, cliffhangery, and extremely suspenseful novels dictate the course of this sci-fi subgenre. When drugs don´t mean perdition, but quicker and better human evolution, one still hasn´t made the calculation without thinking about any kind of possible side effects.

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