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Ecco
July 2015
On Sale: July 7, 2015
336 pages
ISBN: 0062391194
EAN: 9780062391193
Kindle: B00N0WUPKU
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Science Fiction
A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of
Artificial Intelligence—illuminating the very human need for
communication, connection, and understanding. In a
narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic
Ocean in the seventeenth century, to a correctional
institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the
perspectives of five very different characters,
Speak considers what it means to be human, and what
it means to be less than fully alive. A young Puritan
woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new
husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code
breaker, writes letters to his best friend’s mother. A
Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles
to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An
isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with
an intelligent software program. A former Silicon Valley
Wunderkind is imprisoned for creating illegal lifelike
dolls. Each of these characters is attempting to
communicate across gaps—to estranged spouses, lost friends,
future readers, or a computer program that may or may not
understand them. In dazzling and electrifying prose, Louisa
Hall explores how the chasm between computer and
human—shrinking rapidly with today’s technological
advances—echoes the gaps that exist between ordinary people.
Though each speaks from a distinct place and moment in time,
all five characters share the need to express themselves
while simultaneously wondering if they will ever be heard,
or understood.
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