About the Book
When mankind's every need is serviced by artificial intelligence, and
death itself is only a minor inconvenience, what does it mean to be
human? The answer lies hidden, deep within the Implied Spaces.
Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a
scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of
architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and
designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the
pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes
created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays,
Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare
scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis:
the end of civilization itself.
Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmessa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from
subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.
From Walter Jon Williams, the celebrated and influential author of Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind, and Angel Station comes Implied Spaces, a new novel of post-singularity action, pyrotechnics, and intrigue.
Williams, whose name has long been synonymous with state-of-the-art
science fiction, builds on the prophetic futurism of Vernor Vinge and
Charles Stross, adding his own brand of poetic prose, masterful
plotting, and engaging storytelling.
