![]() The story follows Yatima, a newly-minted “orphan” AI who lives in a city (or server) full of other AI. If you like math and physics and have a good background in it, though, you might love it (I know at least two physicists who did!). It’s very heavy on the math and physics and I have to admit most of it went right over my head. It’s very hard scifi to the point where it almost feels like a different genre from the classic scifi I’m used to (like H.G. I have to say that although I really enjoyed seeing my favorite neoproun set used, I didn’t get a lot else out of Diaspora. Important Note: ve/ver/vis pronouns were actually first used by Keri Hulme in her novel, The Bone People (which looks very depressing, though I do plan on reading it). ![]() ![]() I like the way the pronoun set has neutral, feminine, and masculine sounds all together and the familiar English pronoun endings. I was looking at pronoun lists, trying to figure out which I liked best for myself, and was really attracted to the sound of ve/ver/vis… it sounds very shiny and futuristic and I dig it. I picked this up because I heard Greg Egan uses nonbinary ve/ver/vis pronouns for his characters in it. ![]()
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