The Mountain in the Sea: Winner of the Locus Best First Novel Award

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You have a chance to create an inventive tale of first contact, “aliens” right among us - stick with that! The near-future-ed-ness of the story makes our current crisis seem both more dire, and more restorable. a] cerebral but not self-satisfied book that also features welcome episodes of comic relief and tightly choreographed action. I want to help my readers imagine how we might speak across an almost unbridgeable gap of differences, and end forever the loneliness of our species—and our own loneliness.

It seems depressingly accurate that a lot of the more spy/espionage aspects of the book's society could very easily come to pass (if they haven't already), with the end result being a very familiar yet believable future.It also is a delight that, while asking difficult questions, the author offers some hope for humankind, and redemptive joy in the struggles involved in facing our environmental battles.

Here developed, for an unknown number of years, the first known sentient species beyond humans in the modern era. It was easier to pretend that Altantsetseg was an individual, that all of her choices were her own, than to admit that Altantsetseg was a part of them.But if you want a great fictional exploration of the issues facing the world now in terms of technological and social disruption, this is the novel for you. The physical setting in southeast Asia was also unusual and interesting, as was the structure that the author imagined for future governments around the world. It seems that these octopi can converse using a form of language through symbols, and so Nguyen’s aim is not so much to study them but to learn to communicate with them. The book was only comprised of like five or six large chapters, and those began with really neat, eerie musical interludes reminiscent of 1970s and 80s documentaries.

At a basic level, MITS is about a human scientist working with the world's only android assistant on a protected island, both of them attempting to study and understand a new species of octopus. La doctora Nguyen viaja a las islas para unirse al equipo de investigación formado por una agente de seguridad llena de cicatrices de guerra y el primer androide de la historia.Eiko is a young Japanese man who's been abducted and put to work with other human slaves on board a fishing vessel commanded by AI.