GLASSHOUSE Charles Stross Posthuman Utopias
I just finished reading GLASSHOUSE by Charles Stross. It's basically a paranoid satire of 20th century exist from the perspective of a 27th century posthuman. The end offers postsingularity posthuman biomorphism as utopia, even trapped within a simulacrum of the 20th century. Space is the Place, where we can be what we wanna be, do what we wanna do. It's humorous though, that Charles Stross posits this utopia as a place where we can live our World of Warcraft fantasy lives in the real, free from prosecution - a sign that their society has finally been freed from the cognitive dictatorship is that someone can walk thru the mall in a hermaphroditic centaur body covered in chainmail without anyone so much as raising an eyebrow. The highest flights of the mind in sci fi crash and burn into the dark subconscious depths of epic fantasy.
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