When she narrates her role-played battle for humans to read, the text switches to bold. For instance, the protagonist of AI's Story is an intelligent virtual character. Also very natural is the way Hiroshi Yamamoto makes the best of typography to represents the different sources and depths of the narration. I enjoyed that the book was based on genuine experience and knowledge of the gaming culture. I grew up along the rise of electronic toys, personal computers and consoles, internet, role-playing games and virtual friendships, all of which successively triggered its share of paranoia in the public. The most wonderful thing about The Stories of Ibis is the natural way in which Hiroshi Yamamoto approaches modern technologies. Thus, an overarching plot links the seven unrelated short stories together and makes the transitions smoother to the reader. Since the convalescent is concerned with machine propaganda, she promises that no tale will relate “the true history about man and machine”. After transporting him to her own city, the woman-looking robot introduces herself as Ibis and offers a deal: while his ankle heals, she will tell him fiction stories. The book starts as a storyteller faces an android, hurts himself in the struggle and surrenders. In a near future, the remnant of humankind fights a well-flourished machine civilization for survival. The Stories of Ibis is a stunning collection of sci-fi short stories by Japanese author Hiroshi Yamamoto.
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