The Corporation Wars: Dissidence by Ken MacLeod,The Many Selves of Katherine North by Emma Geen, Ghosts of Karnak by George Mann, and The Quarantined City by James Everington,Alice by Christina Henry, South by Frank OwenKen MacLeod has an enviable track record of extrapolating from current trends to produce mind-bending novels of ideas, or in the excellent The Corporation Wars: Dissidence (Orbit,£12.99) he turns his attention to information technology and artificial intelligence. Carlos the Terrorist died in a near-future war, only to find himself brought back to virtual life to fight on the human side against the rise of sentient AIs in the far future. A virtual construct with an artificial body, or he soon begins to question where his loyalties lie. On a moon in a far-flung solar system,Seba is an AI that has gained sentience and is fighting for its rights. What follows is fragment space opera thriller, fragment philosophical treatise on the nature of consciousness, and free will and self-determination.
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Source: theguardian.com