The stone canal. Book review of The Stone Canal by Ken Mcleod 2022-10-23
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The Stone Canal (The Fall Revolution, #2) by Ken MacLeod
I won't give away the plot. McLeod is well read, but they haven't gone far enough. The nuances of political ideologies and their almost ridiculous preeminence in his character portraits deeply distract me from the fabulous concepts he can bring to his stories. There are humans in robot form and robots in human form. This provides one of the best first lines of any science fiction novel: "He woke, and remembered dying".
He is well worth reading. Android Dee, as it turns out, may have been nudged toward freedom by Jon Wilde, her cloned body's former husband they met at Glasgow University back in the '70s , who just recently came back from the dead revived by himself, in robot form to join in the struggle between robot abolitionists and the malicious boss man of New Mars, David Reid Wilde's former rival and owner of the sex slave that happens to be a cloned copy of Wilde's former wife. As you can probably guess from the above, The Stone Canal is a bit more complex than The Cassini Division, it's also a lot more interesting from a philosophical point of view, because most of the book is really about the good old subject of what makes an intelligence and when it deserves freedom the old Bladerunner question. Despite not feeling like I really got it, I liked the book and the story was engaging. This is the second novel in the Fall Revolution series, although it is not strictly a sequential series. His character is very well done indeed.
The book explores economic theory - Marxism, capitalism, socialism, Trotskyism, anarchy and libertarianism. But not in a pompous way, not in an academic way much. Both have similar ideologies but different motivations and when Jon is killed during a strange revolution he is astonished to wake up by the banks of a stone canal on New Mars, orbiting a star far from Earth. Just random thoughts about nothing. As they say — consciousness wants to be free.
The Stone Canal: Book Two: The Fall Revolution Series
It covers a time-frame both preceding and succeeding the one in the previous volume, and is definitely in a shared narrative continuum, with at least one point of explicit character contact, as well as many shared events in what was then when it was written in the 1990s a conjectural near future. Robots are people, people are reincarnated as robots. Yet, if you let it, you could easily be sucked in to this kaleidoscope of ideas for many pleasant hours. It feels rather on the abrupt side and perhaps would have benefited from being extended. That storyline moves up through the Fall Revolution itself in which The Star Fraction is set and eventually out into Jovian space and then on to New Mars over the subsequent century. Many multilayered new types of political leanings have been introduced. This is the third Ken Macleod book I've reviewed in what seems to be a very short time, so I'll skip the usual plaudits- regular and semi-regular readers of the blog should be well aware of them by now.
Until a young man walks into Ship City, a clone who remembers Jon Wilde's life as an anarchist with nuclear capability, who was accused of losing World War 3. And there were parts that just made me feel stupid. This time Benjamin Tucker's individualist anarchy is the starting point, but it also explores the consequences of human equivalent robots and hyper intelligent computers. Pros: Original, quality writing, with an eye for detail and a driving story arc Cons: None whatsoever "The Stone Canal" takes place in the same future universe Mr. Reid in particular slides more and more into a cardboard cut-out corporate villain. This is the second in a four part group. Humans have solved many problems of the human condi This book is a weird genre of technology-economics science fiction.
His are among the few books for which I keep a dictionary handy while reading. Avoiding spoilers, the story starts from both the future and the past. That stranger remembers David Reid, New Mars's leader. Many multilayered new types of political leanings have been introduced. MacLeod does it with finesse. Santesso in SFS 41.
I also think I am going to miss hanging out with the characters in this book and that, I think, also says a lot about the quality of the wri If you think Mad Max is a libertarian hell, try this book. I really liked the two-track plot and the deeper dive into the world of New Mars, and I enjoyed Star Fraction was a 3. Action-packed, inventive, and satisfyingly weird, Ken MacLeod's Stone Canal the retroactively U. Great technology and the concomitant possibilities. The second book in Macleod's Fall Revolution series I'm reading these all ass backwards, I know. I really liked the two-track plot and the deeper dive into the world of New Mars, and I enjoyed the alternative view on the events of the 21st century in this book. I did lose the suspension of disbelief when it became apparent that Wilde's political postings somehow slid him with a hop, a skip, a jump and a lot of handwaving into the leader of a sudden blossoming of a nearly-buried space program into a megaforce that's building wormholes and using nanobots.
I'm having a hard time describing how good I think MacLeod is, without going into total babble mode okay, some would say that I already did, but hey…. I have no clue. Potentially interesting issues are raised - the nature of the relationship between a person and a machine-held copy of their mind, for example - without being explored. It felt a bit like Og the chiseler of stone newsmagazines suddenly being responsible for interstate freeways and hybrid self-driving cars. He's an awesome writer, 2.
They coexist with robots of varying degrees of cognition, some very human. I don't want to live forever. The machines know their place, and only the Abolitionists object. I probably was not the target audience for the book. The other narrative is set in the far future, when a clone of Jonathan Wilde is given his memories, cop Originally published on my blog The two interlocking narratives which make up The Stone Canal concern libertarian anarchist Jonathan Wilde.
