The best books by Marc-Uwe Kling

The Kling thing is not science fiction for the sake of it. In the case of this author, things are more dystopian as parody, satire and invitation to criticism or even revolution. Something that could happen if the current levels of narcotization of social consciousness were not mediated. Something that, on the other hand, has already happened with George Orwell in the middle of the XNUMXth century with his works between allegories and metaphorical ucronias. Conclusion, author as necessary as unexpected reaction to the scenario described as a photocopy of today stripped of artifice.

Surely we need to delve deeper into this German author. As other of his works are translated, we will be able to expand his narrative spectrum. The point is that we now have him mythologized as that type of writer clinging to the need for glossy criticism with a good dose of imagination, to end up convincing readers and society in general of the imperative to wake up and take charge. Those moral obligations of control over powers of all kinds, political and economic above all.

So let's enjoy Marc Uwe Kling and discover in his shadows the same ones that cling to us, under our feet, drawn from the spotlights that artificially illuminate our path...

Top recommended books by Marc Uwe Kling.

QualityLand

With books like this, from german writer Marc Uwe Kling we once again associate science fiction with philosophy, rather than with other aspects of the suggestive fantasy plot. Because the science fiction of this novel deals more with the metaphysical than anything else.

The most glorious dystopian precedents of the CiFi (in this case closer in the plot with the happy world of Huxley) mark that precedent that serves to project into our future the most existential questions as a civilization.

Perhaps at this time, at this time, the AI, the Internet of things and the segmentation of our life according to our IP's, sounds like a more accurate forecast towards that horizon built by algorithms and capable of the most comfortable alienation and inalienable.

Welcome to QualityLand, in the not too distant future. At QualityLand everything works well: work, leisure and relationships are optimized by algorithms. There are curious things, like your last name is the job your father or mother had at the time you were conceived, and to confirm a purchase made at TheShop you have to kiss the iPad. And the algorithms suggest (and impose) even your possible perfect match.

However, one of its citizens, Peter Jobless, knows that something is wrong, at least in his life; He is also one of the few who allow themselves to disagree with the world in which he lives, and who does not mind losing points (because the system, yes, constantly evaluates you). If everything in QualityLand is really so perfect, why are there drones that are afraid to fly or combat robots with PTSD? Why are machines becoming more human, but people acting like robots?

QualityLand

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The sweet normality of bad things disguised as inconsequential news. The comfortable and even necessary perspective of danger like a piano that never falls on your head. Because chance pulls your strings, lucky little being. Except that for everything to go even better, the ideal is to surrender to the plans that religions once wrote and now deals with drawing the bloody algorithm of the day with its hobbies and whims pointing directly to the most impossible of randomness...

In QualityLand, that wonderful place where algorithms decide what you want or what partner is best for you, the waters seem to have returned to normal and Peter Sinempleo (remember, in QualityLand the last name is your father's trade when he conceived you) now works as a therapist of machines with serious psychological problems. Martyn (Presidential Office Steering Committee Foundation Chairman), after his "little incident" with the previous president (well, he was just an android after all), desperately tries to level up to have the right to be forgotten.

But Kiki, that attractive young woman who lives in hiding and who takes advantage of the crimes committed by others, has begun to dive into her own past and has found herself in the crosshairs of a murderer; she will be the guiding thread of this story that reveals many secrets of that future that is so similar to our current world.

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