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

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Make all your characters vehicles for plot, synopses of aforementioned octopus facts, or philosophizing about sentience and semiotics. However, here this device didn't work as well as hoped, as the listener isn't given any warning: Which is narrative for the novel? As you might guess from the well done details described above, the writing style is impressive, too.

To use another movie reference, it's a lot like Her, where things are very much the same in the near future but with lots of clever gadgets and tech that seems to make a lot of sense. En la isla se lleva a cabo una investigación secreta, a cargo de la Doctora Ha (bióloga especialista en cefalópodos), Altantsetseg (especialista en sistemas) y Evrim (un androide que es el mayor éxito de la empresa, un hito en tecnología, cuasi humano y cuya creación ha generado mucha polémica a nivel mundial). My heart already wants a sequel to The Mountain in the Sea, but my head says that maybe it's better as a stand-alone. It reminds me of classic works from authors like Isaac Asimov and David Brin or David Walton's Three Laws Lethal.

While this sort of ‘first contact’ is used to examine philosophical concepts such as consciousness, the same themes are simultaneously put to the test through the human interactions with varying levels of technology: drones, AI, and Evrim.

He knows his stuff and has clearly thought about this a lot, which really shows (to the book's benefit). I hope people don't pick this up hoping for a mindless soft serve of sci-fi and leave disappointed that it's something different; there is a refreshing level of depth here (ha-ha). Han conseguido mayor longevidad, lo cual hace que puedan transmitir conocimientos a sus descendientes y desarrollar una cultura.

The blurb says this is supposed to take place in the near future and it reads like it too; I would’ve guessed 50-100 years in the future max. Good science fiction is imaginative entertainment, and The Mountain in the Sea certainly is entertaining.