Chimera (Salt Modern Fiction)

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For their own good, they are given pills to prevent them from dreaming, because dreams might impact on their sense of reality. After the lengthy journey, as the ship nears its destination, unexplained glitches in safety features are detected.

Chimera being uniquely its own, I'd side mention if you liked Becky Chambers To Be Taught if Fortunate for it's slower pacing, more prophetic musings and questions surrounding life and the dynamics of characters on a spaceship for a lonely space mission, this would probably be a good read for you, as Chimera ties in similarly in that way. With its gothic motifs, this dark portrait of a ‘fairytale’ marriage is full of mystery and suspense … an elegant and bloodily shocking entertainment. Alice Thompson, one-time keyboard player for Eighties band The Woodentops, is now an established novelist, who has won praise from Ian Rankin and Stephen King. So much of what they find on the Moon appears to be manifestations of the previous astronauts’ imaginations or dreams.The reveal that it was augmented AI-Artemis who wrote the book - or at least, what it stands in for - does kind of throw the entire preceeding narrative into question for me. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . Ostensibly, she’s on board Chimera because astronauts aren’t allowed to dream and she has to supervise their welfare.

A fortnight ago, in a newspaper article, Naomi Klein charged proponents of Artificial Intelligence with misappropriating terms from psychology and mysticism to give the impression that “they are in the process of birthing an animate intelligence on the cusp of sparking an evolutionary leap for our species”. Alice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Chimera, by Alice Thompson, is set in an imagined future where faster than lightspeed space travel is a possibility. But Alice Thompson is so brilliant, and takes the stories and characteristics of these Gods to create an original, and thought provoking unsettling sci fi and at times horror, space mission.The idea of erasure reminds me of Niamh Prior’s recent short story titled ‘Peter and Jane’ , which uses only the 300 key words from the eponymous Ladybird First Reader Series to convey dark tales of Peter and Jane’s adulthood. There’s a starkness to the writing that reflects the characters, slowly becoming charged with emotion over the course of the book. We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. She has produced playful and provocative novels in several genres – supernatural, espionage, crime and postmodern metafiction.