MixedMan in the Sea by Ray Nayler, I think this was a three. It feels like, yeah, solid three.
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Mountain in the Sea (2022)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species, she doesn't pause long enough to look at the fine print. DIANIMA - a transnational tech corporation best known for its groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence - has purchased the islands, evacuated their population and sealed the archipelago off from the world so that Nguyen can focus on her research. But the stakes are high: the octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence and there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of their advancements. And no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. And what they might do about it.
- ISBN:
- 9781399600484
- Length:
- 464 pages
Genres: science fiction, thriller
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Loved itVery good. This book will make you think differently about octopuses. So, it's set in the future and there's some great stuff here to do with intelligence and consciousness and comparing humans versus robots versus animals versus aliens, like all kinds of beings and the way in which intelligence and consciousness can be the same or different.
Loved itthis was really cool I really like this it's like a really interesting alien story but the alien civilization is living in our oceans it's really inventive
Loved itit's a pretty straightforward read doesn't ask too much of you ... I quite enjoyed it.
Loved itthis book was a first Contact novel that isn't aliens it's actually octopus and we didn't really recognize that they were sentient until suddenly we do
Loved itthis is a story that just felt so smart it made me really excited about octopuses I end up doing a whole bunch of other research after finishing the book and I just thought it was very well written