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Men and women have been made cordless using birdwaves to transmit data. Indridi and Sigrid, a happy young couple, have not been calculated together but they see it as an inevitable technicality. When Sigrid is matched with someone else, the utopia they created together begins to crumble as they are calculated apart.
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Meanwhile, LoveStar, the enigmatic corporate titan who discovered birdwave technology, is enslaved by a new idea. It sounded like a good literary cocktail and I was not disappointed. While LoveStar had fewer laugh out loud moments than Vonnegut and Adams' works, it shares the same wild imagination. LoveStar can be experienced as a cautionary tale, pure entertainment, and as a wonderfully crafted reflection on human life and its trajectory.
Das Ende ebenfalls grauenvoll. A Philip K Dick nominee. This novel is about the inevitability and momentum of ideas and the power of information. It's also about the three ideas which can never be anything but subjective, and yet rule everything: Love, Death, and God. It's set in Iceland where everything is known about a person, true love is "calculated" accurately, and secret hosts are constantly being directed to steer those around them in some more profitable direction.
LoveStar is the man who discovers these calculations, and since absolute knowledge means a great deal of power, he finds himself swept away by his discoveries. His empire consists of inLove, LoveDeath, iRegret, iStar, and a new and more troubling product that's about to launch. When a too-effective Mood director is "demoted" to LoveDeath, Magnason has this to say of his predicament: LoveDeath was like a Gdansk shipyard, customs office, or power plant, and this was where Ragnar was forced to kick his heels. I wonder what it's like in the original Icelandic, since at times the language is a bit wooden.
However, the pace is brisk and the ideas and extrapolations are fascinating.
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Good cover design made me pick this book up because I couldn't read it. Beautiful matte black with a no fingerprint finish. As further luck would have it, also a slice of the delicious plot. We follow our protagonist Indridi, from the time of his second birth, with flashbacks to his first provided by his doting parents. To the adult Indridi, so Lucky find. To the adult Indridi, so enamored with Sigrid, the two of them can't get to work on time because they're entwined. They are not Calculated to be together. Technology is delivered right to your head, and how you might pay for that technology can be directly blipped into your brainpan and out your mouth.
Howlers, traps, complimenters, spies. There are Mood Men Ragnar is fantastic , there are cuddly Mickey Mice that are unfortunately carnivorous working on V 9. And the comitragic figure of LoveStar himself, captured and consumed by ideas. LoveStar was an award-winner in , this English translation came out in Madcap storytelling - a delight to sail through. I hope some other genius has optioned the film rights.
What a movie this would make! I listened to this one and I suspect my listening experience strongly informed my attitude about the book.
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I have very little love for the narration of the audiobook. It was stilted and affected and, frankly, irritating. The narrator performed any female voice in a screechy howl, and one particular passage if you've read it, it was Per's repetitive diary entry -- you know the one made me willing to commit terrible acts if it'd bring about the end more quickly. Please, if you want to read this book, actually read it and don't listen. LoveStar the book is generally about a Steve Jobs like ideas-man also named LoveStar who comes up with wild notions like pulling together a bunch of dead satellites to make the brightest body in the heavens, also named LoveStar and gets his minions to pursue them while he moves on to the next brainstorm.
His ideas have led to a world of people reliant on technology in unpredictable ways. His ideas have led to things that might seem beautiful LoveDeath, for instance, involves bodies shot into the atmosphere, which burn up and look like falling stars but are ultimately disastrous and serve to divorce individuals from their own humanity this "beautiful death" is expensive and wasteful, and allows citizens to disassociate from the reality of the end of life.
His ideas have led to disaster that no one is willing to admit is disaster. The plot is also focused on two young people in love, a simple enough notion complicated by the governmental organization iLove, which matches humans across the globe with their ideal other halves. I absolutely adored a lot of the near-future ideas in LoveStar originally published in Icelandic in , translated into English in The advertising concepts people can hire themselves out as Howlers and bark advertisements to passersby on behalf of companies , social constructs for a time, children can be discarded and a clone born in its place in order to raise a better product if the first attempt proved disastrous , and take on globalism war and racism would become obsolete if people were love-matched with people form different parts of the world, thus removing the notion of us-vs.
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The problem for me is that I didn't care about the main plot at all and was left with little payoff at the end. The fairy-tale conclusion in a sort of Grimms way, not a Disney way felt rushed and too easy. Comparisons are made to Kurt Vonnegut and I didn't find that comparison particularly apt. This may be because I adore Kurt Vonnegut. Nov 16, Muhammad Amer rated it it was amazing. Being the Arabic translator of the novel, I really enjoyed its strangeness and twisted plot.
The novel is based on a the mere idea of consumption, in which every human being in this world is labeled "For Sale! In the beginning, a reader may shape a presumption about the novel giving its weird love story, yet he discovers latter that it's not just about love, it's about love, death, God and life in one pack. The clash between LoveStar and God is mere philosophical, and maybe this clash is based Being the Arabic translator of the novel, I really enjoyed its strangeness and twisted plot.
The clash between LoveStar and God is mere philosophical, and maybe this clash is based on the fact that the man himself didn't see himself as a God at the beginning, then his impulsive control issues led him to. Life, love, death are all under control of LoveStar, however when matters comes to God, it became impossible.
In this very moment, the weakness of man is truly apparent and the power of God is massive. LoveStar believed himself and got self-centered when he only presumed that he controlled everything, this "everything" terminated his life however. Did he controlled love? Not with Indridi and Sigrid's case. Did he controlled God? He died hours after their meeting. Did he controlled death?
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His one million star-festival ruined the world and killed him. The very end scene is close enough to the story of Adam and Eve, in which Indridi and Sigrid are supposed to revive the world when they are the only living humans on Earth. I think this novel reflects a lot of Magnason's philosophy of life and God. Oct 23, Annie Bacon rated it liked it. In the near future LoveStar, an eccentric Steve Jobs-like genius, has used his scientific studies of birds butterflies to revolutionize all aspects of life, interpersonal communications, death, and even love.
As the book opens he is on the verge of his greatest breakthrough - discovering the true nature of God. But in spite of these breakthroughs the core of human nature remains unchanged. LoveStar's monolithic corporation uses the data it gathers from its operations to reshape society into unthi In the near future LoveStar, an eccentric Steve Jobs-like genius, has used his scientific studies of birds butterflies to revolutionize all aspects of life, interpersonal communications, death, and even love. LoveStar's monolithic corporation uses the data it gathers from its operations to reshape society into unthinking consumers with no value other than their pocketbooks.
It trivializes communication, devalues death, undermines friendship, and tears apart lovers. What will it do to the world once LoveStar discovers God? This is pessimistic science fiction of the best sort.
Magnason clearly extrapolated the most worrying trends of to their ne plus ultra and did not like what he saw. And yet somehow, a decade after this book was first published, we find ourselves in a worryingly similar predicament.
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Hopefully we won't need Magnason's apocalyptic denouement to solve these problems once and for all. We are all cordless modern people. Consider buying some advertising space. I am free to shout your marketing copy from the hours of 1PM to 3PM. I am typically running errands during this time so your copy will likely be heard by people at the grocery store, at the gas station, some truly strategic locations.
It reads like a fairy-tale and ends in a similar fashion. The author sets up an amazing and thoughtful world, but I would have liked to find out more. This book could have safely been much longer. Still worth reading if you are into science fiction along the lines of Bradbury or Heinlein. Jeezus what a load of crap. I'd hoped it might err on the side of silliness and irreverence, but it was just stupid. Flat, affectless writing, too, beyond the point where that might've been ironically amusing and into the territory of boredom.
Excellent setup and a bunch of lovely concepts come together in a very promising manner, but some loose ends are left completely untouched and the ending arc was unfortunately flat. Still enjoyed it overall, and looking forward to anything else by the author that gets translated into English. Feb 13, Sean rated it it was amazing.
This is like Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick and Orwell wrapped into a big, fun, scary ball. A smart commentary on our hyper-networked world, how it impacts our culture and consumption, and how we market to each other and ourselves. D'abord, par la forme.