Category: Reviews and Interviews

FoesOfReality put up an interview with Leonid Korogodski, the author of Pink Noise, conducted by Miranda (Ran) Weingartner. It comes in two parts, and it bites deep into the meat of many issues surrounding the concept of artificial intelligence and their implications for the future. FoesOfReality Interview: Part I: Digital vs Analog Intelligence, Role of Deterministic Chaos, “Programming” and Emotions. FoesOfReality Interview: Part II: Neural Darwinism, “Remembered Present,” Memory and Identity.

Miranda at Foes of Reality reviewed Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale. At first, like Alice, she “was feeling rather lost until I found the key to Leo’s code: […] Pink Noise is science as prose poetry.” She even suggested a soundtrack! “How does it feel — to be a ray of light? You’re cutting through the plasma of the solar wind at nearly the speed of light in a vacuum. The distances have shrunk. You’re a pulse of signals, ones and zeroes. A frozen state of mind.” (Suggested soundtrack) Does that turn you on? Then drop out and tune in…

The reviewer at SheNeverSlept.com finds the Pink Noise story “quite exciting” but finds the non-fiction notes in the back of the book even more enjoyable: Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale by Leonid Korogodski is a mind melting tale of the future. The humans have made it to Mars and have also discovered immortality. They download their brains into the “e-World,” calling themselves “posthuman.” The story follows Nathi, a Zulu born on Mars. He is a posthuman healer who has been assigned to restore the brain of a young girl in a coma so that she may be downloaded into e-World.…

“Only when life is short can one imagine that love lasts forever.” This line sums up one of the major themes of The Immortality Virus by Christine Amsden. Set in the far future, when the humanity stopped aging, this story explores such deep subjects as the price and benefits of immortality, while at the same time keeping up the break-neck pace and turn-the-pages feel of a good science fiction thriller. This is no mean feat to achieve. It helps that the plot resembles the familiar mold of private investigation stories. The main character, Grace Harper, is a private detective, who…

Jim Hines reviews Pink Noise on his blog: “[…] The worldbuilding is incredibly rich, and there were plenty of, “Hey, that’s so cool!” moments, which is one of the things I read SF for. […]”

BookSpotCentral has published a glowing review of Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale. One of the coolest, most well-designed and fascinating hard SF novels I’ve read lately is Leonid Korogodski’s page-turning Pink Noise (A PostHuman Tale). Have you perhaps never heard of the author? You have now. I believe Leonid will soon be one of today’s best-known science fiction personages. You can find the entire review by clicking here.

Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale is featured in Small Press Bookwatch, May 2011 by Midwest Book Review.

Brazilian Book Worm reviews Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale. Pink Noise itself is a chronicle of what we could gain but, more than everything, what we could lose if we all stopped being human. Is immortality worth it? If you think about it, look at Egypt, they TURNED THE INTERNET OFF! And if they got as much control, imagine if all of our minds were connected there… Who would be controlling the system? And who would watch them? (who watches the watchmen kind of thing).

Seamus Sweeney gives Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale an excellent review on SFSite.com Pink Noise is one of the most thought-provoking and enjoyable books I’ve read in a while. […] it is a long time since I have read something so arresting and haunting. […] Leonid Korogodski’s short book […] combines the force of a parable with a sense of what Wordsworth called “something more deeply interfused,” that strange, almost mystical effect of the whole being far more than the sum of its parts. It’s the sense that we get in The Great Gatsby and Heart of Darkness, like Pink…

Val takes a look at both the story of Pink Noise and the ideas behind it. The author puts quite a lot of material in a relatively short text. Pink Noise: A Post-Human Tale is deceptively densely written and I ended up rereading certain passages after completing the appendix. Although Korogodski sets a brisk pace, parts of the story could be called action-packed, it is definitely a work that requires some time to read and digest. It is quite an impressive début, one of the most interesting science fiction stories I’ve read in a while. It is prime food for…