Postsingular has been a pretty fun read. I think it may be my favorite book of the quarter... I think it is interesting how everything seems to interconnect. The big pig, Chu's knot, Thuy's life and her metanovel are all dependent on each other. This is the conclusion that has been implied at the end of part three. I really wonder where the story will go for the rest of the book. There certainly still are a bunch of loose ends, for example, what will happen to Luty? Will they catch him and kill him, or will he dissapear forever? And Ond and Chu are still stuck in the Highbrane. For some reason I was feeling as if there wouldn't be much left of the story if it were to go on, but now I realize that there are a lot of unanswered questions.

In Rudy Rucker's Postsingular, nanotechnology has taken over the world. It seems interesting that in addition to the "real" world there is a "virtual" orphid net world, and a person can choose which one to be in at a given time. The dilema that seems to come up is whether people will still want to function in the "real" world at all, when they could be much smarter and connected through the orphid net. It's like cell phones. Most of us have them, and few of us that do choose to not use them. They are constantly on or near us. Additction? In postsingular people become addicted to the orphid net, or the big pig. Straight up addicted to technology. What is it with humans wanting to be smarter, greater, more powerful. I guess there is the condition that many of us think we are the shit. Humans are the top of the food chain, eh? The smartest, strongest. Right? Well, if we keep fucking with the natural world perhaps Mother Nature will show us whose really boss? I wonder if, in Postsingular, some such thing will happen. When, if even, will "Gaia" resist? I do like that some of the postsingular characters refer to Earth as the godess. i think she is.