The Bequeathal: Godsent
By Zoran Jevtic
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The Bequeathal: GODSENT
In a post-crash, rebooted world, Eugene Reece is one of the billions of pre-indebted citizens whose lives are augmented by the virtualized intellects of the deceased. If anything, his stats tag him average, though a notch more disillusioned and a degree less spirited than the next, permanently connected individual but his surplus dose of ironic self-derision makes him slightly discrepant. The tedium of Eugene‘s drudge is forever broken during one of his habitual visits to Soho and a too-good-to-pass offer of beta-testing a personal entertainment clone. This results in expensive and fatal biological damage and, although accidental, his indecipherable crime earns him the attentions of the anti-terror agency, subjection to unimaginable torture, and untimely physical death.
And that’s when his life really begins...
Take a front seat in this breakneck, hi-tech preview of the future, but be warned – this thought-provoking book will crawl your cranium for a long time. More on the Bequeathal website.
Prior to the filming of a blockbuster trilogy, its world-famous lead actor said he was required to read three books before he even saw the script. One of those was by Jean Baudrillard and another from the internationally acclaimed Introducing... series.
Now, in GODSENT, a contributor to several books from the same series, and co-author of Introducing Baudrillard, who has also had rare personal access to the great cultural theorist, has taken simulacra to reality. In this fast-paced SF novel, he combines fresh philosophical notions with original concepts of digitised afterlife and reconstructed psyche to bring us to a brand-new evolutionary stage.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Re-reading "The Bequeathal: Godsent", a day after finishing it, because I didn't know there is SciFi like this the first time. Saw it featured on Ray Kurzweil's site and ended up loving it. Outrageously good story told in hi-definition and all without blazing guns. But then, Kurzweilai,net's tagline does say: "Accelerating Intelligence". This book does exactly that.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An existential voyage, a rare intellectual Sci-Fi. A must-read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well, this came out of nowhere. Was browsing the Amazon and saw this in bestselling high-tech SF but never heard of the author. So far I'm stunned (still reading it). Written in a classic SF style but mixing heavy duty slang and future technology, the ideas are expansive. Existential and social issues mixed with augmented, transcended and virtual interactions. There's a nasty 'capitarch', a posh 'cadavatar', a genius 'neurosynth' and the accidental hero who becomes a 'demiurgic enabler'! Very fresh, very unexpected. Love it so far, will update when finished reading.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The ideas, so many mind-boggling notions in the story. Fast, violent, exciting, though cleverly does it all without any ray guns, space cowboys or alien princesses. Total gem, someone should do a movie out of this.