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Mockingbird

Walter Tevis

Start date: September 15, 2016

Finish date: October 1, 2016

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Oct 05, 2016 Gertie rated it really liked it

Shelves: dystopian, immortality, futuristic, apocalypse-whenever-book-club

I didn't write a review right after I read this and it's been 9 years... but I can say that I think of it sometimes. More often lately, as we develop AI and AGI. A study came out in June talking about "cognitive debt". The idea behind that phrase is that people become "become less capable of engaging in complex thought processes and creative ideation." It particularly would hold true for young people with developing brains.

It's easy to project from there, into a future where we have gotten less ...more

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Oct 27, 2015 Melanie rated it really liked it

Books like Mockingbird are why I love science fiction. It is nearly impossible to read a book such as this without taking an inward look at myself and the current state of society. I just hope the despair I feel will dissipate before too long.

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Feb 24, 2013 Mitchell Friedman rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own, five-star, fiction, science-fiction, philosophy, liked-reviews, post-apocalyptic, five-star-science-fiction, bc-powells-exile

Reading old favorite books is still scary. I never know if I'm going to be the same person. This was an old favorite. I'm not sure how I found it. I have coverless copies of The Hustler and The Color of Money which presumably came from 1984 on the Ga Tech campus. Perhaps I found mention of this book as a post apocalyptic by an author I didn't know wrote sf.

I know that it was a favorite when we suggested it be read for a couples science fiction group - so that would have been maybe 2002. And I ma ...more

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Dec 14, 2012 Aaron rated it it was amazing

Shelves: apocalyptic

Wow. This was a very nice surprise. There's alot in here, about *reading* particularly. About the joys of reading. And of love. And feelings. Worth a read again... ...more

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