Future Bright, Future Grimm

I can’t say if this is bad or good. It’s both simplistic and complicated.. just really not my cup of tea. I do like how the author seemed to have chose lesser known tales

Rating: 4/5
Published Date: 11/15/2021
I was given an eARC from NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for my honest review.

Transhumanism – the rising global movement to supercharge human evolution with radical tech – heralds body- and mind-bending personal transformation. Yet it feels curiously familiar, like the dizzying fears and fantasies we probed in Germanic folklore as children.
Future Bright, Future Grimm draws upon the odd, abrupt, often violent tales of the Brothers Grimm to summon transhumanist tomorrows of astounding grace and danger. The adventurers, magicians and monsters who lurk here are we and our mind-children – amplified, augmented, immortalized in rebooted fables with the edgiest of twists.
This is magical realism inspired by the transfiguring technological sorcery that our species seems driven to conjure. Where the improbability of traditional fantasy meets the wildest possibilities of modern science and the coming ‘Singularity’.

This book was both dark/twisty and philosophical, out of this world but at the same time worldly. I do have to say I normally do not read books, and I was disappointed nor was I hooked. I do believe that it is all up to the person who reads the books if that is something that they really like. I am not a huge sci-fi fan, but I know when to appreated well written sci-fi. The different POV on a classic written Grimms Brothers Fairy Tales was well done and a lot of the stories had me saying hmm, and definitely left me thinking. I really loved how the author took time after each story to explain the rationale behind each story and gave a small backdrop of where it stemmed from. Overall I would recommend this book to any that has read Transhumanism/ Sci-Fi and loves them.

I want to Thank NetGalley and BooksGoSocial publishing for the chance to review this eARC for my honest opinion .

Transhumanism – the rising global movement to supercharge human evolution with radical tech – heralds body- and mind-bending personal transformation. Yet it feels curiously familiar, like the dizzying fears and fantasies we probed in Germanic folklore as children.

Future Bright, Future Grimm draws upon the odd, abrupt, often violent tales of the Brothers Grimm to summon transhumanist tomorrows of astounding grace and danger. The adventurers, magicians and monsters who lurk here are we and our mind-children – amplified, augmented, immortalised in rebooted fables with the edgiest of twists.

This is magical realism inspired by the transfiguring technological sorcery that our species seems driven to conjure. Where the improbability of traditional fantasy meets the wildest possibilities of modern science and the coming ‘Singularity’.

Open doors – some dazzling, some dystopian – to enchanted mindscapes, unhinged. A storybook for changelings whose humble once-upon-a-times now spell truly outlandish ever-afters.

I found myself reading chapter after chapter without realising how late it was getting. I started in the evening and couldn’t stop till I’d reached the conclusion!

I really enjoyed this book! The writing style created a nice flow and the storytelling really pulled me in. I read this in one sitting, and completely lost track of time.