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State Tectonics (The Centenal Cycle, 3) (edição 2019)

por Malka Older (Autor)

Séries: Centenal Cycle (3)

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The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information's network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers, and revolutionaries sharpen their knives in the shadows. And Information's best agents question whether the data monopoly they've served all their lives is worth saving, or whether it's time to burn the world down and start anew.… (mais)
Membro:russdaniels
Título:State Tectonics (The Centenal Cycle, 3)
Autores:Malka Older (Autor)
Informação:Tor.com (2019), Edition: Reprint, 432 pages
Coleções:Fiction, A sua biblioteca
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State Tectonics por Malka Older

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    The Shockwave Rider por John Brunner (jsburbidge)
    jsburbidge: Similar concerns with the establishment if muctodemocracy using extended send publicly available networking.
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good conclusion. i really liked the characters in this series, and didn't want to let them go. but beyond that, i was really interested in the balanced treatment of the subject matter. the idea of information as the basic of a technological bureaucracy separate from politics (and policy), floated in the first book, the case against it floated in the middle book, and here a semi-inevitable breakup of the world all that created, with new models contemplated down the road. it's not set in our time, but rather in the latter part of this century, although obviously there are many reasons in our time to be interested in how the author analyses this model in the field, and where she chooses to take it. ( )
  macha | Mar 25, 2024 |
A curiously ambivalent -- though generally enjoyable -- ending to Malka Older's Centenal Cycle. As I read this one, I kept wondering if the author's growing doubts about Information and the highly technologized world that they've built was part of this project from the beginning or if her misgivings about the company's mission grew as she wrote the novels and social networks seemed to destabilize both political systems and the minds of their more credulous users. Either way, the through lines connecting this series' characters -- all well known to us by now -- suggest that this literary project was planned out well in advance. We see Maryam settle into a new relationship, Roz deal with impending motherhood and Mishima -- the book's true center -- simultaneously play the action hero and try to settle down into a more normal existence with smart-and-steady Ken. We even see her -- a character so disciplined that she can seemingly shut down her fear and pain almost at will -- attempt to delve into her more human and creative sides. Considering that character development isn't usually a priority for this kind of work, I was surprised at how attached to some of these folks I'd gotten, and was glad that the author saw fit to find a suitable place for them by the time I hit the book's last page. At the same time, "State Tectonics" ups the ante on action scenes. It's got a few terrifyingly tense and exhilaratingly graceful fight scenes that made me wonder if Older shouldn't be consulting on rock 'em sock 'em projects in Holywood somewhere. All of this balances out the human elements of this book rather nicely, and, in a way, reminds us of what most readers are likely actually here for.

As for the book's increasingly conflicted critique of centralized data aggregators -- even one as efficient and mindful of best practices as Information -- I think the author may be asking whether any internet-involved megacorporation can ever really be free of bias, and whether forfeiting our right to privacy, even in a data environment that prioritizes transparency, eventually leads to a world that is less free, more systematized, and, in the end, less human. It's a fair point, and I think that the author makes a good choice by leaving this issue essentially unresolved -- it's even hard to tell how many of the plot's major players feel about this issue as the narrative winds down. Still, considering the mess that is online life in the year 2022, I felt almost guilty for wanting argue that an informational environment wholly controlled by Information seems so much better than our current conspiracy-addled timeline that I'd choose to live in the quietly invasive future world that Older has described in these books every day, and twice on Sundays. Even with all of the concerns raised over the course of these three books, microdemocracy seems so much more functional and effective than almost any version of governance extant in the world today that I think that it'd be difficult not to want to live in something resembling it. Those Information employees we meet in "State Tectonics" that are unhappy with the way things are run should spend fifteen minutes on Twitter as it currently exists and see how they like it, or read about how difficult is to get any bill out of the US Senate. Still, the stubborn persistence of what Information employees somewhat contemptuously call "null states," areas of the world still dominated by nationalistic and tribal affiliations, don't seem to be going anywhere at the end of the book and may even be growing in power and influence The pointed message being delivered here seems to be that even the best-designed governmental systems are fragile, and they take constant maintenance and an impressive amount of flexibility if they are to survive more than even a couple of generations. The Centenal Cycle presents readers with what is, in many ways, an optimistic vision, but it's hard to deny that it's a kind of warning, too. ( )
1 vote TheAmpersand | Oct 8, 2022 |
Thankfully this is the end of the trilogy. This one seemed to try to insert random sci-fi tropes into the existing “micro democracy” world, and managed to make formerly distinct characters sort of blend together into a sea of generic bureaucrat. Overall, the idea of a political sci fi story is interesting, but it probably justifies a great novella, not a mediocre trilogy. No other element of this series stood out enough to take it beyond just the idea. ( )
  octal | Jan 1, 2021 |
Five stars for what the novel and the previous two is attempting to do. The idea behind the whole Infomocracy one-world government of democracy by self-involved special interests delineated not by geography but by ideas is a great milestone in literature.

Sure, others have done something similar in regular modes or have skirted around the idea in the past, but Older grabs hard onto the topic and runs at full speed with it.

I mean, let's face it, the idea sounds complicated but it really isn't. NRA nuts vote along NRA lines. Pro-Lifers do the same. When we have an idea that we're willing to sacrifice all other ideas upon its altar, we get together all our buds and tell them to sacrifice all the other things they believe in to focus HARD upon that one single idea.

It's insane, but it's what we do. Older's SF is a whole world full of voting blocks and, as in the second novel, Null States who refuse to take part in the grand social schema. But in this third novel, we're focused post-tragedy rebuilding, the mistrust with all the voting blocs, and a serious misgiving for the whole political process that seems oddly familiar...

RIGHT?

So, yeah, Older is really tapping into our current political Zeitgeist and hits us hard where I suppose a lot of us are fairly weak. How do we trust information? Can we trust information? Is there any way to cut through the s*** and get the truth when the truth can be twisted 23 ways before breakfast?

Things can never be simple. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you their snake-oil. And yet, that's where the problem always becomes worse. We need to be informed, so we decide to trust loved ones or personalities we think we can trust or any other illogical mode JUST BECAUSE we're so unsure. And then we roll with it for good or ill because that's what we've always done.

Older tells this story in her own way and couched a very thoroughly thought-out near-future world and I really appreciate the attempt. Truly. Much respect.


However, the actual story and plot in this one? Sigh. Not all that interesting. It had its moments and the very thing I loved most about the novel, the intricate political and information-terminology complexity, was also the most difficult thing to enjoy. The exposition dragged the tale even though the exposition was exactly what made this book (or these books) so great.

It should definitely be read and enjoyed, but a certain amount of managed expectations should be involved in the process. :) ( )
  bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 |
This is a cyberpunk-lite trilogy set in the near future where most governments have become micro-democracies based on groupings of roughly 100,000 voters. Overseeing this is a fusion of Google, Facebook and Twitter who control Information. I have to say i found it a bit heavy going and I felt it was something that showed it was written by an American with the politics.

I was only half-way through book 2 when I had to cast my votes, but finishing the series didn't make me change my mind where I ranked it (last).
  Maddz | Aug 31, 2019 |
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The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information's network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers, and revolutionaries sharpen their knives in the shadows. And Information's best agents question whether the data monopoly they've served all their lives is worth saving, or whether it's time to burn the world down and start anew.

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