Le Guin, he combines smart, imaginative extrapolation about technology and a deep curiosity about civilization and the human condition. Like the best-known sci-fi author with a background in anthropology, Ursula K. It's a lot to tackle in an average-length novel, but Toutonghi's ambition doesn't stop there.
Before long Chance and its coworker Leap get sucked into a plot that involves unjoined "ferals" who live far below the spired cities of the affluent, and an entity known as Excellence who heads Vitalcorp, the powerful company that licenses the quantum personality matrix - for a hefty fee that regulates an insidious social order. but it muffles the thriller at the heart of the book. In juggling so many heady themes, Toutonghi opts for huge blocks of exposition and theorization. Still, the death of a drive (as each member of a join is called) is traumatic for the whole - so, in an attempt to prepare for the inevitable, Chance seeks the counsel of Rope, one of the first joins in history, a pioneer who's sunken into alcoholism and self-destruction. Death isn't the end when you're joined after your body gives out, your consciousness lives on in the collective. Their newest addition is a college student named Javier who's just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In a future United States ravaged by megastorms and coastal flooding, Chance is a join - a network of three men and two women sharing five bodies but single, collective consciousness. And while that background gives Toutonghi a unique perspective on the way humans interact with technology, Join - as enthralling as it is - suffers from a few disappointing glitches in execution. Toutonghi is well qualified to speculate on such a premise a tech worker with Silicon Valley credentials, he also has a degree in anthropology. Through surgery and science, two or more people are able to fuse their psyches into a single, shared identity, called a join.
In Steve Toutonghi's debut novel Join, he probes those technological connections between individuals in a science-fiction setting, a vision of America where citizens routinely connect to each other using a medium called the quantum personality matrix. How?Įvery day, people get more and more connected - thanks mostly to technology, which has increasingly drawn humanity together in a way that's both heartening and not. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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