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Review::Implied spaces by Walter Jon Williams
 Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams is a book I read originally because someone was searching for a book by some loosely defined description of a book about the singularity and a man with a talking cat. I have picked up a number of books because of someone’s haphazard search for something they once read.
This was one of two that were found and I can’t remember now which was the one they were looking for. However the other book was Accelerando (Singularity) by Charles Stross[third book of the the Singularity series]. Oddly enough Amazon has a quote from Stross on William’s page—giving him some support kudos for his work on implied Spaces.
Both feature the talking cat and the singularity.
I was trying to remember what I liked about Implied Space. It’s definitely not the prose at the end that might be said to mirror epic poetry such as the Odyssey or Iliad and though it is not nearly as dense as Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Odyssey A Modern Sequel, I still don’t have a taste for it.
I decided to read it again.
What I did like was the notion of the Implied Spaces. Our hero Aristide is traveling through the multi-worlds of the singularity and examining the implied spaces[unused spaces created through the architecture]where he discovers interesting things exist. This is how we are introduced to him. However it goes deeper as it’s revealed that he is one of the architects of the group of AI who run(maintain)the multi-worlds. His cat is in fact a construct of one of those AI’s that is used to give that AI freedom to travel with Aristide.
In the beginning we see Aristide as he tries to blend in with the different cultures that exist within the multi-worlds and we also get a sample of his morals and character as the story evolves. The important thing though is that his musing over what exists in the implied spaces is going to be disrupted by a threat to the multi-worlds. Someone or thing is trying to destroy the multi-worlds connections and possibly trying to free the AI’s from perceived slavery: under the authority that presides over the singularity’s multi-worlds.
While pursuing the perpetrators Aristide becomes convinced(applying what he’s learned about implied space)that the universe exists within an Implied Space, which both points to an architect in creation and yet also that mans existence is a non-planned event that filled an otherwise unused void.
That’s not a spoiler. Since the most important thing seems to be the revelation of who the perpetrators of the disruption are.
There are some things that I found predictable(that’s predictable the first time I read it, since this time everything should have been predictable).
Great depiction of what the singularity could be along with some bonus adventure and interesting characters.
J.L.D 2021
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