Thalamus (book)
Thalamus is a 2018 novel for adolescents and adults by Ursula Poznanski . The title is derived from a part of the human brain that is also called the thalamus .
action
The novel is about a boy named Timo who ends up in a rehabilitation clinic after a motorcycle accident. However, there are some strange things there. His roommate, who is in a vegetative state, gets up at night, talks and walks normally and even threatens Timo. Timo himself is also changing: sometimes he can walk without any problems, but then he cannot tell anyone about it because his language center ( Broca area ) is blocked. And he hears strange voices in his head. Ultimately, he learns that he has had small nanobots implanted in his brain that are supposed to promote his recovery with the help of repairs made directly in the brain. However, these not yet fully developed bots have some disadvantages: They decouple from the system and develop a life of their own. Their goal: to develop at any cost. Whereby they literally walk over corpses, because with their rapid increase they kill their "owners".
backgrounds
The idea of nanobots does exist in medicine, but it is by no means as feasible as it is described in the book, as these are microscopic machines. The term “ gray goo ” was first introduced by the nanotechnology thinker Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation . This is a doomsday scenario in which the nanobots multiply too rapidly and thus extinguish all life.
output
- Ursula Poznanski: Thalamus. Loewe, Bindlach 2018, ISBN 978-3-7855-8614-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Thalamus | What are you reading? Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Ursula Poznanski: Thalamus . Ed .: Loewe Verlag.
- ↑ Lawrence E. Joseph: Broadway, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-7679-2448-1 , p. 6.