Mountain in the sea
Mountain in the sea
14.99 €
There's something in the waters of Condao.
For the locals, it is a sea monster. For a team of scientists, a discovery. It's an opportunity for the government.
Their minds are not like ours. Their bodies are malleable, transformable, changeable. They can communicate.
And they want us to leave.
Dianima, a multinational technology corporation, has isolated the remote Condao archipelago where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have created its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent his life studying the intelligence of cephalopods, is willing to do anything to study them. She travels to the islands to join the team of "Dianima": a battle-hardened security agent and the world's first (and possibly last) android.
Octopuses are the key to an unprecedented breakthrough in non-human intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen tries to make contact with the newly discovered species, forces beyond Dianima are approaching to capture the octopuses for themselves.
But no one asked the octopuses what they thought. And what they can do in such a situation.
A thriller about the near future, a reflection on the nature of consciousness and ecology - Ray Nayler's dazzling literary debut "Mountain at Sea" - is a mind-blowing dive into the treasures and wreckage of humanity's heritage.
For the locals, it is a sea monster. For a team of scientists, a discovery. It's an opportunity for the government.
Their minds are not like ours. Their bodies are malleable, transformable, changeable. They can communicate.
And they want us to leave.
Dianima, a multinational technology corporation, has isolated the remote Condao archipelago where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have created its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent his life studying the intelligence of cephalopods, is willing to do anything to study them. She travels to the islands to join the team of "Dianima": a battle-hardened security agent and the world's first (and possibly last) android.
Octopuses are the key to an unprecedented breakthrough in non-human intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen tries to make contact with the newly discovered species, forces beyond Dianima are approaching to capture the octopuses for themselves.
But no one asked the octopuses what they thought. And what they can do in such a situation.
A thriller about the near future, a reflection on the nature of consciousness and ecology - Ray Nayler's dazzling literary debut "Mountain at Sea" - is a mind-blowing dive into the treasures and wreckage of humanity's heritage.
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