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The Corporation Wars: Emergence (Second Law Trilogy, 3) Mass Market Paperback – September 26, 2017

by Ken MacLeod (Author)
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Ken MacLeod concludes the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I revolution.

The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource-rich moon. Now it's enslaving conscious robots -- and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals.

Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside a smart boulder on the slope of an active volcano. The planet is super-habitable -- for its own life, not hers. But soon, the alien infestation growing on her robot body is the least of her problems.

Carlos is out of patience. With the Reaction arming for conquest, the Corporations trading with the enemy and the Direction planning to stamp out the rebel robots and their allies for good, he has to fight fire with fire.

Seba is out of time. Deep inside the enemy stronghold, the free robots have to spark a new revolt before the whole world falls in on them.

b>As battle looms, the robots must become their own last hope.

The Corporation WarsThe Corporation Wars: Dissidence The Corporation Wars: InsurgenceThe Corporation Wars: Emergence
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  1. Book 3 of 3
    The Corporation Wars
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    416 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Publisher
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  5. Publication date
    September 26, 2017
  6. Dimensions
    4.25 x 1.13 x 7.63 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    031636374X
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0316363747
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  • Jake G.
    5.0 out of 5 stars A hard sci-fi masterpiece.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017
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    This trilogy works on two levels. Its surface level is a gripping narrative of distant-future factional conflict. On a deeper level, it is a philosophical deep-dive into the nature of consciousness and reality, staggering in its breadth and scope.

    Themes include:

    -Human brain emulation. (See also Robin Hanson's "Age of Em.")

    -Autonomous corporations helmed by advanced unsentient software, and its implications for true AI.

    -Extreme politics far outside our own Overton Window -- accelerationism and (neo)reaction -- in inevitable conflict with the ideological descendant of modern globalist politics.

    -Space colonization as it's likely to be, not as we hope it might be.

    -Interface technologies from the mundane to the magical. (The quite literally magical, as readers of Book II will appreciate.)

    -Your most plausible afterlife.

    -Compound minds, hive minds, shared simulated universes, and other means of communication.

    -The age of abundance -- simulated universes running on cheap substrates end want and poverty.

    -The "hard problem" of AI emergence from purely physical patterns.

    -Reliable, if chilling, personality tests.

    -P-zombies -- unsentient human-mimetic software. (See also the works of the philosopher David Chalmers.)

    -The unreality of simulated time, and the unreliability of memories in a simulated brain.

    ...There's more that I won't mention for fear of spoiling the plot.

    What's most remarkable is that these themes are not flippantly introduced and then rapidly discarded. They are integral to the plot, and their logical implications are typically followed-through to the end.

    As should now be obvious, this trilogy is heady stuff -- the hardest of hard-core SF -- and probably the best work of its type since Greg Egan's "Permutation City," which was released in 1994.

    A masterpiece. I'd give this six stars if I could.
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  • Bob Hill
    5.0 out of 5 stars MacLeod is a fine writer if you like space opera with a little ...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017
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    Entertaining. MacLeod is a fine writer if you like space opera with a little intelligent political reflection between aliens and battle scenes. I'm an addict., though I really miss Iain Banks, who I'll join soon enough.
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  • Michael Holmes
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Future Imagined as a Dogma Chasing its Karma. Forever.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2018
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    Just finished the trilogy. If you've ever wanted to know how a philosophical bar debate could trigger a gamified interplanetary war, then these are the books for you. Throw in some plucky concious robots who refuse to play ref and some vastly cool AI's who don't want the war to get unprofitable or the furniture to get scratched and there are enough factions with tin in the game (there's one you missed Ken!) to make it all a tad unpredictable. If The Forever War and Starship Troopers had ever had a Space Baby, it'd have looked like this.
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  • James Moore
    5.0 out of 5 stars A banger of a trilogy with very interesting ideas on the future and theory of mind baked in
    Reviewed in Australia on December 16, 2017
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    Tremendous fun from Ken MacLeod, in a trilogy that has some of the hope and humour of Star Fraction and Cassini Division. Great characterisation in the human and artificial intelligence characters and knotty philosophical issues dealt with smartly.
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  • George
    4.0 out of 5 stars .
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2019
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    Quite original and not too soft scifi. Characters aren't the most deep or complex and therefore one doesn't feel much empathy but never the less the story line more than makes up for that.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great trilogy Classic and Modern Sci Fi combination
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2017
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    Read this trilogy in "real time" not as box set. Characters sustained my interest and stayed in my memory. Plot strong enough to keep me interested despite time lag between books. Go ahead and enjoy the full series as one read. Totally worth it
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  • W. W. Dug
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2017
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    Last of the Trilogy it has been a complex fun read, thought provoking in concept but enjoyable.
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