I'm in the process of reading through Walter Jon Williams' new book "Implied Spaces" and I'm thinking that someone really needs to make a game out of this. In a nutshell, the book might have coined a new sci-fi genre: the Sword & Singularity genre.
For those of you are unfamiliar with the term, the singularity is a point in time at which machine intelligence becomes self-aware and starts to increase in ability exponentially. This extremely rapid progress renders what came before it as dated to the new society as the dinosaurs seem dated to us. Various sci-fi authors have their own takes on this idea so you tend to see a lot of different singularities in sci-fi writing. It's become a big thing in sci-fi over the past decade.
Williams' book combines elements of sci-fi, namely the singularity, post-humanism, and advanced technology, and combines it with some classic sword & sorcery ideas. The result is a rather fresh take on both the idea of the singularity and the sword & sorcery genre.
Yeah, someone needs to make a game about this.
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