Dek Unu: Another Tomorrow
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It was inevitable, for history is always written in blood. The human race has finally unraveled, forcing the survivors into a newly formed sovereign utopia in the center of Africa, called 'The Mainland'. Religion and nationalism have been outlawed, blamed for humanity's self-destruction. For the first time in history, an artificial intelligence is put in charge of internal affairs, unaffected by greed, lust for power or nepotism, while its subject residents are forbidden to use the technologies that plagued their forebears. An archaeological expedition is sent to the dead zones in the north to document the world that once was. Muracius Goodmond, head of the Department for the Study of History Verification, is secretly rushed by his fellow scholars into an isolated dig site. There an ancient document is uncovered, which Goodmond is horrified to learn contradicts objective scientific knowledge. Matters become graver still when he realizes it may determine the future of the regime, and the fate of eleven innocent children. Now the scholars have to face an impossible dilemma: in order to pursue truth, they have to break the law. They have to trust their inferior human minds.
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A very unusual book with some interesting aspects in it. This is a mystery set in a future post-apocalyptic world. A team of archaeologists are exploring a buried city. It is almost 1000 years after the big apocalypse that ended our world. It is a very tightly controlled world with police watching everyone all the time.
The story follows the team and the lives of some young people who are somehow related in a prophecy that will change the world they live in. I liked that Esperanto is the official language of this future world. I liked that the most important political goal for the future government is to prevent war.
Now for the difficulties with this book for me. I had a hard time reading each character's story, one after another. I did not know the reason for each character until the end of the book, so I was not interested in reading each person's story. I did a great deal of skipping ahead to get to the end. Finally at the end it is mostly clear what is happening. But, it was a problem for me that characters are introduced with no explanation of why I should care about them.
I say it is a very interesting book. It ends on a cliff hanger. We need to get the sequel to find out what happens with the characters.
