Review: So Much Imagination and Technology
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2014
With a lot of these books, they start and stop at androids. David Simpson went so far beyond the android phase in his Post-Human series that it clearly deserves a place among the the classics of sci-fi. Sounding like Neal Stephenson of AI, Simpson fully explores mankind's future with computers, nanotechnology, cybernetics and artificial intelligence. He even extrapolated meeting aliens with data agendas.It is abundantly obvious that Mr. Simpson put a huge amount of time, research and effort into playing out the different scenarios that would occur before he wrote these books. It is wonderful to see that type of effort put forth and pay off so beautifully. It made the books enter territory never ventured into before by other authors and so was incredibly exciting to read. His imagination is virtually breathtaking.The characters in the book that all participated with the technology were naturally flawed and human -even the the AI appeared to be a human. They all had a preponderance of good qualities that stood out. My favorite characters were Craig, James and the AI.This is really like the old time Isaac Asimov novels, and is just as groundbreaking. I have been reading sci-fi all my life, and while some authors may provide something new every now and then, what Simpson has done is lay out a century of technical advances that completely transform the human race.Read These Books Now! Highly Recommended!