ARGONAUT BOOKS

Artemis, a researcher into how to visualise dreams using artificial intelligence, is sent to the moon Oneiros on the spaceship Chimera. The crew's mission is to look for alien organisms that will help assuage global warming. But it becomes apparent on the moon that there are other reasons for the mission. Reviews Chimera is a restatement of that old science fiction question "What is it that makes us human?", but Thompson takes a very distinctive approach, the notion of "dreams as poetic metaphors of thought" allowing for explorations of the nature of consciousness and where ...Read More