kab rated And Shall Machines Surrender: 3 stars
And Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be chosen as host bodies-called …
@subcutaneous The premise is excellent but motivations and points of conflict were frustrating. Characters who are scared and/or harried still have time to make unnatural chapter-long confessions. Also commercial concerns seem to be the magic ingredient in making the maps work. You can't draw your own secret passages even if it's in your training. At the same time when I abandon books in a heartbeat I did make it alll the way to the dragged out end :)
