Last book in the Imperial Radch trilogy.
I guess it was a Good ending. A sort of happy ending, not my cup of tea though. I'd have preferred it to be a bit darker or maybe much darker.
Anyways I love this world, not plausible, I guess, but thought provoking. A world where humanity coexists with Artificial Intelligence and Sentient Machines. A world where Contradictions arise... Humans are the Masters and Machines the Slaves, Is this fair when machines can be sentient?.... at the same time, Humans are almost totally dependent on AI to survive, they are constantly watched (there is no Privacy!) And monitored to the extent that even their feelings can be predicted by machines.
The Lord of the Radch was an interesting character. Thousands of bodies across the empire but only one consciousness. It reminded me of Mr Bovey, a Multiple from the Void trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. Similar concepts only in the Void Mr Bovey's had a few bodies and they lived together. All the bodies represented the same person whereas the Lord of the Radch could have different personalities.
Things I thought were missing:
. We never know who built the AI cores, and under which principles, or values.
. Some AI are presented as if they had emotions and feelings. However most humans seemed unaware of this, including auhorities, including the Lord of the Radch, who I thought should have been the one to specify the quality of AI in his empire, or at least be better informed.
. If the above have not been programed on purpose on AI, but developed or evolved on its own, then I guess the author missed an opportunity to explore this more in depth.
. No more character development, the protagonist and other main characters do not evolve much. The strory just follows up from book 2 in a kind of straight line, no surprises, no twists, at least that I could see.
More questions come to my mind, like:
What is life? And Consciousness? Can Artificial Intelligence be alive? Or have rights?
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