I'm Hooked - Columbus Day By Craig Alanson

Book Review - Columbus Day Expeditionary Force, Book 1, by Craig Alanson.... This has become my favorite book series. I of course have read so many books, and so many series. Yes, Science Fiction is my wheel house when it come to reading, or in this case listening, but it does not get better than this.

Craig Alanson just knocks it out of the park. When I started this book I was thinking it was just another science fiction novel dealing with space invaders. And yes that is how this book starts off. But a few hundred pages into it you get introduced to one of the best characters you will ever meet. Skippy, a smart mouthed AI that just makes this book. Yes the story outside of Skippy is engaging and science driven to a point, but it is the interaction between Skippy and the main character in the novel Joe Bishop that keeps it interesting.

When I read Science Fiction it is never for just enjoyment, yes there is that, but I read Science Fiction to captivate my mind and get it working and thinking about science and futuristic ideas. Which is what I want any novel I actually create to achieve. You read it and think, well how would that really work. In Columbus Day it made me think about how AI's will actually work. Do we really want a Skippy? Probably not, but the restrictions placed on him as to who and how he can interact with sentient beings reminds me of Asimov Laws of Robotics. How the AI Beer Can is really a multi-dimensional construct made out of foreign or exotic matter might just be how we achieve AI. Some type of quantum computer that exist in out time and out of our time.

All in all, this is a very great series, one I keep waiting on the next for the installement.

Columbus Day

• Expeditionary Force, Book 1

• By: Craig Alanson

• Narrated by: R.C. Bray

• Series: Expeditionary Force, Book 1

• Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins

• Unabridged

• Release date: 12-13-16

• Language: English

• Publisher: Podium Publishing

4.7 (15,881 ratings)

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