Reviews
“Newitz always sees to the heart of complex systems and breaks them down with poetic ferocity.”
- —N. K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth trilogy and The City We Became
“Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet.”
- —Neal Stephenson
“Something genuinely and thrillingly new in the naturalistic, subjective, paradoxically humanistic but non-anthropomorphic depiction of bot-POV—and all in the service of vivid, solid storytelling.”
- —William Gibson
“This book is a cyborg. Partly, it’s a novel of ideas, about property, the very concept of it, and how our laws and systems about property shape class structure and society, as well as notions of identity, the self, bodies, autonomy at the most fundamental levels, all woven seamlessly into a dense mesh of impressive complexity. Don’t let that fool you though. Because wrapped around that is the most badass exoskeleton–a thrilling and sexy story about pirates and their adventures. Newitz has fused these two layers together at the micro- and macro-levels with insight and wit and verbal flair. Moves fast, with frightening intelligence.”
- —Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“Annalee Newitz has conjured the rarest, most exciting thing: a future that’s truly new … a terrific novel and a tremendous vision.”
- —Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
“Holy hell. Autonomous
is remarkable.”
- —Lauren Beukes, bestselling author of Broken Monsters
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More praise for Scatter, Adapt, and Remember:
“This book looks like our future and feels like our present—it’s an unforgettable vision of what could be.”
- —Kim Stanley Robinson
“Fascinating…. [Newitz is] an excellent writer, with an effortless style…. The inner science geek in all of us will uncover some really cool stuff…. A terrific book that covers an astounding amount of ground in a manageable 300 pages… You will be smarter for it.”
- —San Francisco Chronicle
“An enormous amount of knowledge is gathered here, and the book accomplishes something almost impossible, being extremely interesting on every single page. A real pleasure to read and think about.”
- —Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy
“A refreshingly optimistic and well thought out dissection of that perennial worry: the coming apocalypse. While everyone else stridently shouts about the end of days, this book asks and answers a simple question: ‘If it’s so bad, then why are we still alive?’… Newitz inspires us with engaging arguments that our race will keep reaching the end of the world and then keep living through it. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember intimately acquaints the reader with our two-hundred-thousand-year tradition of survival—nothing less than our shared heritage as human beings.”
- —Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse and Amped
