Audiobook Review + Adrian Tchaikovsky
The third installment in the series, and (at first) very confusing, but in the end it all makes sense.
Again, Tchaikovsky takes a 'what if' and spins it all the way to its logical conclusion, in this case it's the Ship of Theseus concept.
The Verdict
Let's start there, because I'll be dropping a major spoiler in the next paragraphs: a good read, even if it overstays its welcome a bit near the end.
To be fair: I wasn't expecting the general, overarching story to move in this direction. I was expecting multiple visits to multiple worlds, dealing with many first contacts and multiple species, but Tchaikovsky went all out and used the limitless possibilities of Science Fiction.
Well done.
Ship of Theseus
If you have a ship, and you replace - over time - each piece with another, identical part, then is the ship still the same ship, or something else?
Spoiler Alert!
Adrian Tchaikovsky takes it one step further: if you replace a physical object with a digital one, or if you simulate a physical world in such detail that it becomes impossible to differentiate between the digital (simulated) world and the real one, then how real is the simulated one?
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