Rating: 5/5 stars
This is a *real* science fiction that is built on advanced yet reasonable scientific concepts at a future time when world is filled with hazardous environments, savageness, and inhuman technology. The descriptions are so vivid and detailed that reading the book is not very different from watching a movie. The author has obviously put a lot of effort in exploring the boundary of the technology and its consequence on human life and ethics. Yet what determines the fate of the human race in the end is love, friendship, faith, rather than technology itself.
The concept of the esolace sometimes reminded me of the movie MATRIX, which makes us question about the differences between illusion and reality, or whether these are indeed two different things. The science is not told as a matter of fact. Rather, it is gradually revealed through dramatic conflicts, and even mystery detection. In the end the plot became kind of complicated that I was sometimes confused by what the hero was supposed to do (according to someone else’s plan for him), what he intended to do, vs. what he actually did (it solved the problem in a rather unexpected way).
Except some awkward phrases and repeated narratives, this book is on a par with most of the contemporary sci-fi bestsellers.
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