One thing I like about the futures of the past is the blind spots. Starship Troopers had powers suits with CRTs in the back of the head and optics to put the image in front of the pilot. This book has an above human intelligent computer controlling an analog circuit switched phone network. He was almost there with the voder/vocoder and the statement about human speech just being combinations of hisses.
Such anachronisms are one of the things I love the most about old sci-fi. Especially when they keep the series going to the modern era (or reboot it) but keep the old conventions, like the retro computer technology in Alien Isolation.
I think Robert Heinlein (and this appears to be a theme across books) is VERY utopian in this novel about a society where socially Women have all the power. I'm thinking of the tourist (although that may be past chapter 12) incident.
I gotta say he really made the Warden a cartoonish punching bag villain. He doesn't appear to make any real moved against the protagonists organisation.
How did I miss that you guys started this one? I loved this book. The dialect took some getting used to, but the tale was quite captivating.
It ended up growing on me quite a bit. It was a really interesting approach to world building I thought.
One thing I like about the futures of the past is the blind spots. Starship Troopers had powers suits with CRTs in the back of the head and optics to put the image in front of the pilot. This book has an above human intelligent computer controlling an analog circuit switched phone network. He was almost there with the voder/vocoder and the statement about human speech just being combinations of hisses.
Such anachronisms are one of the things I love the most about old sci-fi. Especially when they keep the series going to the modern era (or reboot it) but keep the old conventions, like the retro computer technology in Alien Isolation.
I think Robert Heinlein (and this appears to be a theme across books) is VERY utopian in this novel about a society where socially Women have all the power. I'm thinking of the tourist (although that may be past chapter 12) incident.
I gotta say he really made the Warden a cartoonish punching bag villain. He doesn't appear to make any real moved against the protagonists organisation.
I got it this time.