Infinity Gate - M.R. Carey

 


Merci à NetGalley et à la ME pour ce SP

(English below)

J'avais déjà lu (et abandonné) un livre de cet auteur, Celle qui a tous les dons, mais j'avais vu la critique de l'excellente booktubeuse Willow sur sa chaîne Books and Bao qui m'avait vraiment intriguée, donc quand j'ai vu Infinity Gate sur NetGalley, je n'ai pas hésité.

L'histoire est narrée à la première personne sans qu'on ne sache qui est lae narrateurice, qui va présenter trois personnes : Hadiz Tambuwal, Topaz Tourmaline et Essien Nkanika. On rencontre d'abord Hadiz qui, dans une vaine tentative de sauver le monde qu'elle habite, va découvrir par hasard l'existence d'autres mondes, d'autres Terres, ainsi que le Pandominium, un consortium d'un nombre incalculable de mondes parallèles. Le principe du Pandominium m'a paru fascinant ! Dans ce tome, on voit un peu son fonctionnement, surtout celui de son armée, et le début de la guerre contre un consortium de mondes peuplés par des intelligences artificielles. J'espère que dans les prochains tomes, on verra si d'autres mondes sont ajoutés au Pandominium et si certains vont se révolter contre celui-ci, puisqu'il dégage quand même des relents de colonialisme.

Ce livre a été un vrai coup de cœur ; il est intelligent, immersif et très prenant. Tous les points de vue sont intéressants et on peut y lire tellement de critiques sur la société actuelle dont l'absurdité de la guerre et l'importance que commencent à prendre les intelligences artificielles et la façon dont les êtres sensés les voient (voire méprisent).


TW : fin de monde, mort, meurtre, esclavagisme, discrimination liée au monde de provenance, classisme, alcool, drogue, guerre, maltraitance


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Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for this eArc

I saw a Willow from Books and Bao review this book on her youtube channel and couldn't resist, even though I had already read and DNF'd a book from the same author (The girl with all the gifts). It was a great decision because these books are vastly different.

This story is narrated by an unknown character and is centered around three main characters (who will eventually be important for the narrator): Hadiz Tambuwal, Topaz Tourmaline and Essien Nkanika. Hadiz is the first character we are introduced to and we follow her as she tries to save her world and accidentally discovers the existence of multiple parallel Earths. In doing so, she encounters the Pandominium, and alliance of many many worlds.

The Pandominium fascinated me! In this first installment, we see a little of how it functions, especially its army, and the beginning of a war against another alliance of worlds populated by AI. I was left intrigued about how exactly Pandominium added new worlds to the alliance and if any of them rebelled against it, as it is a form of colonialism. Maybe in the next volumes!

Infinity Gates is a new favourite because it was so clever, captivating and immersive. All the POVs are interesting and it critiques very smartly various aspects of this world, like the absurdity of war or the massive presence of AI and how people perceive them.

TW: death, murder, end of the world, slavery, drugs, alcohol, discrimination, classism, war

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