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Infinite
by Jeremy Robinson
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Ok, this book review is going to be way more of a rant, so just be aware. This book had so much potential! So much, but it just squashed its own opportunities to really be any good.
**SPOILERS AHEAD!**
Only keep reading if you don’t intend to read the book.
Will wakes up from a ten year cryo-sleep to be instantly killed by his old friend Tom. And then he wakes up. He wrestles with Tom, dies again, wakes up again, and then kills Tom. Tom had gone space mad and had slaughtered the entire crew except for one woman he left in her cryo bed, but we’ll come back to her later.
Will manages to clean up the slurry of dead humans and drones clean the ship. He’s distressed at finding out he's immortal, so he goes and hooks into the space age VR to watch security and find out some answers. FOR ONE YEAR! He spends an entire year in VR trying to figure out what Tom did to the ship, all the while it’s floating aimlessly through space. He didn’t even realize time had passed. Suddenly he’s like oh, why don’t I use Tom’s corpses’ DNA to get into the system? It took him a year to think of that? And he’s supposed to be some sort of genius. He brags about himself though the whole book. And he found out why he’s immortal, but just sort of glazes over it. He realized that he doesn’t need to eat, sleep or poop, and that's all he cares about.
He now decides that he’s desperately alone even though a year passed without his noticing!! So what does he do? SPENDS FIVE MORE YEARS IN VR CREATING A VIRTUAL ROBOT COMPANION! He decides that he didn’t want to live immortally and alone, and he also decides he hates the woman who is still in cryo sleep even though he used to love her, so now he would create an endless VR paradise where he could live out in eternity with the super cool new robot he created because he’d amazing. *eye roll*
Let not forget that their mission was to explore a certain new world. Six crew members were doing just that when Tom started killing, so those six crew members are either 1. Dead or 2. Still on the planet knowing their ship abandoned them. Six years pass so casually it’s like Will has no care for anyone but himself. He doesn’t even try to find a solution or turn the ship around. He never even explores the ship, he just casually spends several years in VR and feeling sorry for himself.
What happens next you ask? Oh yeah! The robot he created gained a conscience and now wants to kill him! Suprise suprise. Oh! And Tom the evil maniac who killed everyone was actually an even smarter computer genius who hacked the system a year before the slaughter and created an even more evil sentient robot version of himself! Now there's multiple sentient robots walking around. And the woman in cryo sleep, Capria? Turns out she’s also immortal. Will patches her up after a fight with the evil robot and then forces her to watch videos of the past five years to make her understand her folly of being Tom’s girlfriend. And it only took several years for her to watch all of the security footage. Again. Years. Passing. Casually.
I seriously cannot not even with the way this book just skips years all willy-nilly. It’s like whatever was happening in the story didn’t really matter, and the author didn’t want to explain things or go into details, so he just skips ahead a few years in the story whenever he feels like it. It doesn’t make me feel connected to the characters or how Will feels so stuck and alone, because we never get to see any of his actual solitude. We just skip ahead!
So now Capria, Will, and his sentient robot friend Gal are floating through space and just existing. That is until BOOM! They see a flat planet confirming that reality is a simulation and life isn’t real. Knowing these, they decide it’s best if they just crash the ship though the end of space and die.The end.
But when they don’t die, they change their minds and decide to go back into VR and search for meaning in this not-infinite world they found. What they find is that the world was coded into existence by a man, a “Tech Jock”, on a computer. So their existence was never real. So Will does some computer hacking, turns the ship around and flies to Earth, where they dig up his long dead brother so he can bury him a few feet away. Oh! and all the dead crew as an afterthought. And also, there's killer man eating frogs.
Now Will, Capria and Gal go exploring the world. Finding native life, almost dying, falling in love. For thousands of years. Right up until Gal pulls Will out of his VR headset. Yep. Everything up to this point, from right after he created his robot companion has been a simulation she created for him. Pretty much the whole book wasn't real, just an HI lying to the human that created her to keep him happy in immortal life.
The end.
**SPOILERS AHEAD!**
Only keep reading if you don’t intend to read the book.
Will wakes up from a ten year cryo-sleep to be instantly killed by his old friend Tom. And then he wakes up. He wrestles with Tom, dies again, wakes up again, and then kills Tom. Tom had gone space mad and had slaughtered the entire crew except for one woman he left in her cryo bed, but we’ll come back to her later.
Will manages to clean up the slurry of dead humans and drones clean the ship. He’s distressed at finding out he's immortal, so he goes and hooks into the space age VR to watch security and find out some answers. FOR ONE YEAR! He spends an entire year in VR trying to figure out what Tom did to the ship, all the while it’s floating aimlessly through space. He didn’t even realize time had passed. Suddenly he’s like oh, why don’t I use Tom’s corpses’ DNA to get into the system? It took him a year to think of that? And he’s supposed to be some sort of genius. He brags about himself though the whole book. And he found out why he’s immortal, but just sort of glazes over it. He realized that he doesn’t need to eat, sleep or poop, and that's all he cares about.
He now decides that he’s desperately alone even though a year passed without his noticing!! So what does he do? SPENDS FIVE MORE YEARS IN VR CREATING A VIRTUAL ROBOT COMPANION! He decides that he didn’t want to live immortally and alone, and he also decides he hates the woman who is still in cryo sleep even though he used to love her, so now he would create an endless VR paradise where he could live out in eternity with the super cool new robot he created because he’d amazing. *eye roll*
Let not forget that their mission was to explore a certain new world. Six crew members were doing just that when Tom started killing, so those six crew members are either 1. Dead or 2. Still on the planet knowing their ship abandoned them. Six years pass so casually it’s like Will has no care for anyone but himself. He doesn’t even try to find a solution or turn the ship around. He never even explores the ship, he just casually spends several years in VR and feeling sorry for himself.
What happens next you ask? Oh yeah! The robot he created gained a conscience and now wants to kill him! Suprise suprise. Oh! And Tom the evil maniac who killed everyone was actually an even smarter computer genius who hacked the system a year before the slaughter and created an even more evil sentient robot version of himself! Now there's multiple sentient robots walking around. And the woman in cryo sleep, Capria? Turns out she’s also immortal. Will patches her up after a fight with the evil robot and then forces her to watch videos of the past five years to make her understand her folly of being Tom’s girlfriend. And it only took several years for her to watch all of the security footage. Again. Years. Passing. Casually.
I seriously cannot not even with the way this book just skips years all willy-nilly. It’s like whatever was happening in the story didn’t really matter, and the author didn’t want to explain things or go into details, so he just skips ahead a few years in the story whenever he feels like it. It doesn’t make me feel connected to the characters or how Will feels so stuck and alone, because we never get to see any of his actual solitude. We just skip ahead!
So now Capria, Will, and his sentient robot friend Gal are floating through space and just existing. That is until BOOM! They see a flat planet confirming that reality is a simulation and life isn’t real. Knowing these, they decide it’s best if they just crash the ship though the end of space and die.The end.
But when they don’t die, they change their minds and decide to go back into VR and search for meaning in this not-infinite world they found. What they find is that the world was coded into existence by a man, a “Tech Jock”, on a computer. So their existence was never real. So Will does some computer hacking, turns the ship around and flies to Earth, where they dig up his long dead brother so he can bury him a few feet away. Oh! and all the dead crew as an afterthought. And also, there's killer man eating frogs.
Now Will, Capria and Gal go exploring the world. Finding native life, almost dying, falling in love. For thousands of years. Right up until Gal pulls Will out of his VR headset. Yep. Everything up to this point, from right after he created his robot companion has been a simulation she created for him. Pretty much the whole book wasn't real, just an HI lying to the human that created her to keep him happy in immortal life.
The end.