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Things from the Flood by Simon Stålenhag
5.0
These books are great. Gorgeous paintings and a fun story to string them together. In this volume, we see the end of the Loop project and what really caused the government to step up and clean up the mess.
When some of the technology littering the landscape starts opening portals and flooding towns and causing "machine cancer", which, yuck. People are starting to be put on alert. Then AI robots from Russia start emigrating to Sweden and eventually the death of a little boy is what starts the reclamation of the land.
Personally I think the stand out of this second book was everything to do with the Vagabonds. I am thoroughly fascinated with AI rising up gaining intelligence and trying to survive. I thought the details about their biologically based religion and their fascination with soft prints, feathers and furs was very interesting. I would watch a show entirely about the Vagabonds.
Especially since I looked up the Amazon series for these books and they are predictably exactly what I figured it would be, and not even set in Sweden, so blegh.
Give me my Vagybonds!
When some of the technology littering the landscape starts opening portals and flooding towns and causing "machine cancer", which, yuck. People are starting to be put on alert. Then AI robots from Russia start emigrating to Sweden and eventually the death of a little boy is what starts the reclamation of the land.
Personally I think the stand out of this second book was everything to do with the Vagabonds. I am thoroughly fascinated with AI rising up gaining intelligence and trying to survive. I thought the details about their biologically based religion and their fascination with soft prints, feathers and furs was very interesting. I would watch a show entirely about the Vagabonds.
Especially since I looked up the Amazon series for these books and they are predictably exactly what I figured it would be, and not even set in Sweden, so blegh.
Give me my Vagybonds!