Chlorine's Reviews > The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

The main issue with this book is that it is not a good thing in my opinion for a man to write about a woman voluntarily submitting to extreme torture and deriving sexual pleasure from it - even though it's in a cyberspace in which the body is regenerated to full health after the fact, and the main character does this to relieve the boredom of eternity spent having all her wishes instantaneously granted.
It would have been so easy to change the gender of the two main characters, and have a male character submitting to torture and rape to _feel_ something, and a woman who built the supercomputer that allows this cyberspace to exist, and make a much more interesting book. Or tone down the description of these tortures and rapes...

This being said, after a first chapter that was difficult to stomach due to the above issue this was an interesting book about a cyberspace in which all of humanity lives, powered by a sentient super quantum computer - the Prime Intellect of the title. It's difficult to say much about it without spoiling the plot but I thought it offered a very interesting perspective on the theme of sentient AI. Without the rape culture theme this would have been an excellent book. With this theme strongly present I don't quite know what to make of this book.