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Hylozoic (2009)

por Rudy Rucker

Séries: Postsingular (2)

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In Rucker's last novel,Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity. The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular live-action media life. But now alien races that have already gone through this transformation notice Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help. But who is to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media stars Thuy and Jayjay. They have the problems of soap opera stars, and are still propelled through adventures in time and in other universes, a long strange trip indeed.… (mais)
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A quick and enjoyable read, refreshing after my last book which a bit of a slog. I love me some Rudy Rucker!
  noiseislife | Aug 13, 2023 |
Rucker, Rudy. Hylozoic. Postsingular No. 2. Tor, 2009.
Hylozoism is an ancient Greek doctrine that held that all matter had life. Gaia is a goddess that personifies the Earth and everything it contains as a single, unified organism. What the Greeks did not add to the picture was that it was all the result of human evolution and nanotechnology. For that, you need Rudy Rucker and the singularity that makes everything sentient and telepathic. Rucker’s Gaia “presented herself as fat Earth globe wearing a cartoon face.” Hylozoic begins with JayJay and Thuy on their honeymoon in a world in which privacy is no longer possible and where if you trip over a rock, it will tell you that you should watch your step, and if you are using a rock to build a wall, it will tell you what rock it would like to cuddle up with. JayJay doesn’t mind. He likes communing with nature as, Rucker tells us in his lengthy writing notes (Notes for Crazy Mathematicians (rudyrucker.com)), he is “open to paracomputation.” But the Hylozoic age does not stay halcyon for very long. The singularity, it seems, has brought us to the attention of highly evolved aliens from other stars, not all of whom are friendly. There are some birdlike creatures that say they got rid of all the nasty furries in their biosphere millennia ago and would like to do the same for Gaia. Then some dimensional time travel happens, and JayJay and his friends help Hieronymus Bosch realize his visions, which may or may not be those we find in our museums. 4 postsingular stars. ( )
  Tom-e | Feb 18, 2022 |
Zany fun, as usual. This is a sequel to Postsingular. ( )
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Hylozoism (from the Greek hyle, matter, and zoe, life) is the doctrine that all matter is intrinsically alive. Under hylozoism, every object is claimed to have some degree or sense of life. - David Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West
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JayJay awoke beside Thuy; comfortably he molded himself against her.
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In Rucker's last novel,Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity. The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular live-action media life. But now alien races that have already gone through this transformation notice Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help. But who is to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media stars Thuy and Jayjay. They have the problems of soap opera stars, and are still propelled through adventures in time and in other universes, a long strange trip indeed.

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