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adventurous
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I discovered Walter Tevis by reading the Queen’s Gambit (which is one of my favorite books go read it) and I instantly knew that I wanted to read more books of this author. The Mockingbird appeared like the perfect choice as a sci-fi novel.
I immediately entered the universe of this novel and got hooked very fast to the story. I picked it up not really knowing what it talked about (as I often do), but I was not disappointed.
It was a talk about mankind, humanity and feelings and how they affect these first two things.
This was really an incredible lecture. It’s also very realistic, as our world could become this. Walter Tevis, in 1980, noticed all the things that could go wrong and took them to their extreme.
“You cannot read this book without turning a critical eye toward the way our modern technological society seems to value cheap, instant entertainment and gratification over real life relationships, hard work and culture. How we tend to isolate ourselves behind computer screens to talk via social media instead of face-to-face. How increasingly we are encouraged to take drugs and medication to “take the edge off” and deal with pain and emotion instead of confronting difficult situations. Mockingbird takes these troubling realities to an extreme, perhaps, showing a future where humans go through life in a state of drug-induced near catatonia because that’s all they can bear, where television programs consist of little but extreme violent sex and rape because we have become numb to anything less prurient”
http://www.spacial-anomaly.com/mockingbird-by-walter-tevis-is-science-fiction-you-must-read/
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It was an amazing dystopian fiction. I personally fell in love with Spofforth, a Level 9 robot with a human mind filled of human memories, and an inability to die. Seeing him struggle with living, his desires and thoughts, his humanity, his immortality and more was very interesting. He was, as a robot, more human than all the others that were under sopor.
Everyone who loves sci-fi should read this, it’s a truly underrated novel that should be a classic.
I immediately entered the universe of this novel and got hooked very fast to the story. I picked it up not really knowing what it talked about (as I often do), but I was not disappointed.
It was a talk about mankind, humanity and feelings and how they affect these first two things.
This was really an incredible lecture. It’s also very realistic, as our world could become this. Walter Tevis, in 1980, noticed all the things that could go wrong and took them to their extreme.
“You cannot read this book without turning a critical eye toward the way our modern technological society seems to value cheap, instant entertainment and gratification over real life relationships, hard work and culture. How we tend to isolate ourselves behind computer screens to talk via social media instead of face-to-face. How increasingly we are encouraged to take drugs and medication to “take the edge off” and deal with pain and emotion instead of confronting difficult situations. Mockingbird takes these troubling realities to an extreme, perhaps, showing a future where humans go through life in a state of drug-induced near catatonia because that’s all they can bear, where television programs consist of little but extreme violent sex and rape because we have become numb to anything less prurient”
http://www.spacial-anomaly.com/mockingbird-by-walter-tevis-is-science-fiction-you-must-read/
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It was an amazing dystopian fiction. I personally fell in love with Spofforth, a Level 9 robot with a human mind filled of human memories, and an inability to die. Seeing him struggle with living, his desires and thoughts, his humanity, his immortality and more was very interesting. He was, as a robot, more human than all the others that were under sopor.
Everyone who loves sci-fi should read this, it’s a truly underrated novel that should be a classic.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Pregnancy
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