Gyula's Reviews > Diaspora

In the past few weeks this is the second book I could not finish.

It has some great ideas, such as the birth of an artificial intelligence, and the state of humanity nine hundred years later (and others I will never discover now). My problem was the way they were presented.

The first forty pages were about the birth of an AI. The text was very technical. I can imagine that someone with more knowledge on informatics or other related sciences could enjoy it, but I didn't understand what was going on, and started to skip pages.

Then I got really bored when this "new-born" started to investigate the mathematics of multi-dimensional objects (OK, I'm simplifying here). I'm sorry, I'm not mathematician, I have bought the book to enjoy a good scifi story.

Talking about the story: it was quite flat (as far as I got into it). The characters were two-dimensional, and the plot didn't get my interest.

I'm sorry that I had to put down this book, I heard a lot of nice opinions about the author.