The Outside
Ratings16
Average rating3.8
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Ratings16
Average rating3.8
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents. Instead of simply executing her, they offer mercy – if she’ll help them hunt down a bigger target: her own mysterious, vanished mentor. With her homeworld’s fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out.
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3 primary booksThe Outside is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Ada Hoffmann.
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Solid 4 stars. See my full thoughts here: https://youtu.be/Dzy73nr9gr8
I really enjoyed the concepts and the mind-bending of this book and especially loved the ‘Gods' and how they came to be.
I enjoyed the word building. I wanted to keep reading to find out what the Outside was. And I wanted to know more about the AI Gods. I realized in the middle of the book that it had inspiration from Lovecraft with all the Outside creatures and the “outside madness” condition. It was creepy to think that Artificial Intelligent quantum computers, that were created by humans, came up with a technological religious authoritarian system to control humans.
Avenging cyborgs
keeping us safe from science
needs more tentacles.
There are many themes woven into this novel ??? themes about faith, for instance, and what it means to become divine ??? but the one that stands out the most for me is...the difficulty of doing what is right, not least because figuring right from wrong is always harder than it seems. A person may desire to do ???the right thing,??? but that desire can be easily twisted and manipulated, until what one does might seem ???right???, but turns out to be in the service of something terrible. This is what happens to Yasira: she is twisted and manipulated to do things that she later comes to realize are terrible. But she learns from those mistakes, and, as I have said earlier, chooses to reject two evils instead of choosing the lesser one, even if doing ???the right thing??? comes at great personal cost.
Full review here: https://kammartinez.wordpress.com/2021/09/20/review-the-outside-ada-hoffmann/
