Ken MacLeod has an enviable track record of extrapolating from current trends to produce mind-bending novels of ideas, and in the excellent The Corporation Wars: Dissidence (Orbit, £12.99) he turns his attention to information technology and artificial intelligence. Carlos the Terrorist died in a near-future war, only to find himself brought back to virtual life to fight on the human side against the rise of sentient AIs in the far future. A virtual construct with an artificial body, he soon begins to question where his loyalties lie. On a moon in a far-flung solar system, Seba is an AI that has gained sentience and is fighting for its rights. What follows is part space opera thriller, part philosophical treatise on the nature of consciousness, free will and self-determination.
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