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Thanks, goons, for introducing me to these books. They were amazing, can't wait for the next one. The endings are definitely the hardest bits to get through: TFP First, where did the All-Defector come from? I know he was with them all along/was taken out of the Dilemma Prison as well, but where was he stored? In Jean? Second, where did the Kaminari Jewel on Perhonen come from? The note at the end was a beautiful touch, btw. Finally Poor Matjeck-Prime. Actually, all things considered, poor everyone, everywhere.
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andrew smash posted:On a reread of the quantum thief I find I'm a bit confused about the nature of the oubliette vs mars as a whole. There are references to small towns and other moving cities but also references to the oubliette as though it's all of Martian society. Does the gevulot system encompass all of mars? If not part of the end of the book doesn't make sense to me. The oubliette is all of Martian society and it is the gevulot system(gevulot I think is nano-tech/encryption software?). There's stuff outside the moving cities/oubliette/gevulot which is nutso angry replicant machines I believe.
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The goal of the guberniyas is to acquire enough information about everyone that has ever lived to allow for all of them to be simulated within one brain world or another. That's how Chen wants to defeat death.
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One thing that I remain confused about : Did the All-Defector consume the Prime Chen? That was the impression that I was under reading that chapter, but presumably that's not what happened, since Prime Pellegrini wouldn't have a way to control it if it was, right?
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Johnny Truant posted:Basically what Neurosis said, I was just seeing if anyone knew what weird branch of whack physics Rajaniemi was pulling from to coin the term, "deep Dyson sleep." It couldn't get to the other ones. Keep in mind the Primes were not subservient to each other, though Matjek was a sort of first among equals.
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Maybe I didn't read things right, but I think the gogols, generally, are just copies of the Founders. By and large I thought the Sobornost just left the uploaded minds live/relive their lives forever. Wasn't that the whole point of their ideology?
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