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Rejoice

By: Steven Erikson
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
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From the best-selling author of the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen comes a story of mankind's first contact and a warning about our future.

An alien AI has been sent to the solar system as representative of three advanced species. Its mission is to save the Earth's ecosystem - and the biggest threat to that is humanity. But we are also part of the system, so the AI must make a choice. Should it save mankind or wipe it out? Are we worth it? The AI is all-powerful and might as well be a god. So it sets up some conditions. Violence is now impossible. Large-scale destruction of natural resources is impossible. Food and water will be provided for those who really, truly need them. You can't even bully someone on the Internet anymore.

The old way of doing things is gone. But a certain thin-skinned US president, among others, is still wedded to late-stage capitalism. Can we adapt? Can we prove ourselves worthy? And are we prepared to give up free will for a world without violence? And above it all, on a hidden spaceship, one woman watches. A science fiction writer, she was abducted from the middle of the street in broad daylight. She is the only person the AI will talk to. And she must make a decision.

©2018 Steven Erikson (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group First Contact Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction

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Critic reviews

Steven Erikson has one of the finest minds alive. Nothing less could have produced The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Now, in Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart, Erikson shows us what he sees when he considers the future of humanity. He calls it a thought experiment. I call it an important book (Stephen Donaldson)
The aliens have come to save the Earth. From us... Steven Erikson, master of high fantasy, has delivered an SF novel with the highest of high concepts. And it's no fantasy. An El Nino of a book, dense, provocative, essential. (Stephen Baxter)
The SF book of the year, maybe the decade. Will make you long for an alien invasion. I loved it (Justina Robson)
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If you like your SF to be based on religious values and get talked at in big chunks by a narrator struggling with male voices then look no further

Dull and religiously based

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A little bit preachy but it's my kind of preachy so I loved it.the narrator was great too.hope he writes another novel in the series,the ending was a bit abrupt.

A little bit preachy but it's my kind of preachy

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Much anticipated, which usually garners disaster. Not this time! Up to the usual high standards.

Start of a great trilogy???

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Pace was a bit slow I felt but the story was really interesting. It was a tad preachy.
I agree with others that the narrator seemed to have difficulty with male voices: every male just seemed "wacky" which was a bit distracting.

Overall, the concept was strong enough to keep me going. The book was good enough as a standalone or part of a bigger series.

Good concepts and interesting story

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Ericson is a genius possessed of unblinking cajones. To tackle a subject of this scope in a far less subtle way than he did in the Fall of the Malazan Empire books takes wit, imagination and perspicacity, not to mention honesty. Everyone should be required to read this and perhaps enough seeds would be sewn….

A hope for humanity it broke my heart to leave.

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