Imagine, if you will, a story about two empires so vast and powerful that they have control over nanites, genes, planetary-busting bombs, and the very ability to time travel itself, while locked in a ...
I first read this a few years ago, and it's since become one of my favorite works of science fiction, particularly as a pro-transhumanist scientist.
It's "Killing Eve" meets "Dr Who" meets "Terminator".
On the "science" part of the science fiction, it's one of the few works I've read that really seems to "get" post-humanity and have a realistic depiction of it. Red comes from a future where people aren't quite individuals anymore but metaconsiousnesses floating around in the soup of the Galactic Cloud. She's a bit of an "oddball" for decanting herself into a single identity with a single body, hence her job to travel to the past to fight for her future.
The nature of the Agency vs Garden conflict, which is never really completely explained (I mean it wouldn't be something we could understand anyways), is nonetheless fascinating. I'm particularly interested in the idea that is implied a few times, that all of the infinite possible timelines funnel down into these two timelines alone.
I can see this personally, at least for the Agency timeline. Something like that is inevitable if humanity survives. Garden is more difficult to visualize... It's almost like in Starcraft, if the Terrans vs the Zerg win, Garden in the "Zerg future"...
It's "Killing Eve" meets "Dr Who" meets "Terminator".
On the "science" part of the science fiction, it's one of the few works I've read that really seems to "get" post-humanity and have a realistic depiction of it. Red comes from a future where people aren't quite individuals anymore but metaconsiousnesses floating around in the soup of the Galactic Cloud. She's a bit of an "oddball" for decanting herself into a single identity with a single body, hence her job to travel to the past to fight for her future.
The nature of the Agency vs Garden conflict, which is never really completely explained (I mean it wouldn't be something we could understand anyways), is nonetheless fascinating. I'm particularly interested in the idea that is implied a few times, that all of the infinite possible timelines funnel down into these two timelines alone.
I can see this personally, at least for the Agency timeline. Something like that is inevitable if humanity survives. Garden is more difficult to visualize... It's almost like in Starcraft, if the Terrans vs the Zerg win, Garden in the "Zerg future"...