I would compare the action of the novel with the hiker who needs to go to the top of the mountain unknown. I do not know the way in which they should walk, lots of surprises and dangers lurk by while passing through unknown areas, climbing toward a distant destination. Nature is indifferent to him, and he is only a fraction of it, like dust in the wind. As he climbs to the top of the knowledge themselves, their fears and weaknesses, but does not give up. I keep trying to get to the top, no matter how much he seemed distant and inaccessible. On their way through changes, everything in it is changing, its character, its own findings and the possibility of how far he is willing to go toward its goal. When you finally reach the top of the mountain, he is tired and he did not do anything, or to reward. View from the mountain reveals how far he came and what he achieved, a new horizons and new opportunities open up in front of him. And the heroes of the novel, as well as a mountaineer, you need to reach that goal, to perform the most difficult mission given to them by the historical moment imposed. What challenges will face members of a scientific expedition to the desolate, frozen planet, and what kind of moral dilemmas to be absorbed, you will know if you try the adventure of reading. Readers will have the opportunity to enjoy a book that leaves no one indifferent. Each chapter of the novel is unique and carries something new and unexpected, the characters are unusual, especially a figure eight passengers, conscious machines. The novel is dynamic and gradually turns into drama and mystery. The book opens some unusual moral dilemmas on the horizon of science. Starting from the question whether conscious machines should be regarded as living beings and make them equal marriage with people to question whether one should go unexamined tracks transhumanism.
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