Edge Of Dark
Brenda Cooper
Pyr, Mar 3 2015, $18.00
ISBN: 9781633880504
The purebred banished the crossbreeding of human and machine AI
experimenters to beyond the Edge of Dark for breaking the laws of nature. However, the humans never anticipated the Next
AI amalgams to return, but they do; exponentially more powerful than when they
were forced to leave and incredibly stronger than those who banished them.
The seemingly invincible Next attacks a remote
station where they change humans that they killed like Chrystal into robots by
pasting their memories into a machine.
Chrystal’s BFF affluent Nona Hall of Diamond Deep is assigned to
negotiate with the Next abominations. As
is ranger Charlie Windar; who oversees what he considers mankind’s most
critical mission, the restoration of the planet Lym
into a thriving nature reserve after human abuse
destroyed the planet. Neither human understands why their
much more powerful adversaries are willing to discuss a deal with them.
Returning to the universe of Ruby’s
Song (see The Diamond Deep and The Creative Fire), this first Glittering Edge interesting science fiction raises several
timely major ethical questions to include what a human is and how far
industrialization should go. Charlie the
fanatic environmentalist and Chrystal with acceptance of her forced change
facilitate reader understanding and visualization of Brenda Cooper’s realm
through their respective filters. For
the most part aimless spoiled Nona proves a subtraction.
Harriet Klausner
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