The book has a moderately interesting brain-in-a-jar concept, where each person lives in their own personal simulated video-game-like universe, but it’s so short, that it barely does anything with it. The book briefly touches on intriguing questions like, does life have meaning in such a world, and whether artificial life (AI) is as valuable as human life, and there is one very brief action sequence, and that’s about it. I think this could’ve worked as full-length book, but as a tiny novella, it ends before it starts, and doesn’t leave much of an impression.
Rating: 3 stars
Yevgeniy Brikman
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