I've finished: When the Sparrow Falls by Neil Sharpson
This is a story about a Soviet style East European dystopia. As someone who grew up in the late 80s it really appealed to me.
An ideology turned into an authoritarian nightmare and the people that get ground up in the wheels.
It is Sharpson's ability to personalize those people as they get crushed in the gears that makes this a great novel.
It's a bit strange to read a novel in 2025 where the AI future is viewed in a positive light. But it was published in 2021, before AI became synonymous with LLMs.
It was interesting reading When The Sparrow Falls at the same time as The Ragpicker, a novel where the digitization of human consciousness and virtual reality are the cause of the apocalyptic nightmare.
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