![]() ![]() “It’s like any scientific experiment, any scientific knowledge that sentient beings see. “I got a bit satirical with the way the faction is appealing to nationalism to get the power they need to open this thing by promising sunlit uplands and making Jzat great again,” Powell says. ![]() ![]() The system is home to a humanoid, multi-armed species known as the Jzat, who are divided among those who want to crack open the Grand Mechanism, believing it contains a wormhole to connect them with a more advanced Jzat civilization, and those who want to leave the mechanism alone, fearing it contains a black hole or other existential danger. The Bristol author’s new novel centers around a mysterious machine called the Grand Mechanism, an impenetrable black sphere, which, about two thousand years ago, replaced a star in a binary system. technology suggests Powell’s imagined future-in which the minds of humans and A.I.s are symbiotically enmeshed-is just around the corner. Powell’s Descendant Machine is set about 200 years in the future, and yet the recent explosion in A.I. ![]()
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