Lourens's Reviews > The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

This book has two sides, which tend to alternate:

1. Full-on nerd science fiction, a captivating possible rendition of the computer intelligence singularity. Complete with alternative quantum theories and a metaverse (sort-of) before it was cool.

2. Detailed descriptions of the most twisted, gruesome torture and sex. To the question "what would living forever in a post-scarcity world be like?", the answer here is dystopian. Everything, and especially pleasure, is boring. But pain is just a little less boring. So let's get skinned alive, or raped by a zombie, shall we?

At times uncomfortable, but never dull.