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Walter Jon Williams is a master of world-building. The world of Aristoi is a unique look of an ideal galaxy: unlike others who have tried to write about classless utopias (such as Chris Walley), Williams goes in the other direction: What if classes became more well-defined, and your place in life determined everything about you?

The Aristoi -- singular Aristos or Ariste -- are the kings and queens of the future, shaping and ruling their domaines (sic) as they see fit. The therápontes serve the Arisoi, and the Demos -- the general population -- are below the therápontes. They are aided by their daemons, or alternate facets of their own psyche that manifest as unique personalities. The Aristoi are the unimpeachable rulers of creation, granted the right to use, modify, and deploy nanotechnolgy to suit their will. After Earth suffers a Grey Goo death -- called Mataglap and classified by various characteristics -- nano is restricted only to the highest echelons of society. Nanotechnolgy is heavily featured throughout the book, and its use (and abuse) is a central theme.

Anyone can dive into the Hyperlogos -- the interconnected network based inside the shell of Earth²'s moon -- and coexist both in the real world and in the Hyperlogos simultaneously. They can allow their daemons to control their body, or their Skiagenos, or avatar within the Hyperlogos. Aristos Gabriel, our protagonist, does this once within the book to be intimate with two people at the same time. The book is occasionally formatted with two columns, to represent the real world and the Hyperlogos. This technique is extremely effective at demonstrating the passage of time. (The e-book, unfortunately, has no such formatting, and it is more difficult to tell when events are happening in sequence or simultaneously.)

Gabriel is known as one of the top Aristoi (of course). He controls a small but dominant region of space, turning most of the planets under his rule into artistic utopias. During a graduation celebration for new Aristoi, he is roped into a suspected conspiracy: the seal of the Hyperlogos, the most sacred of all encryption, has been broken. Information is being destroyed and hidden away, which (in Williams' truly open society) is paramount to blasphemy. Aristos Gabriel must investigate the irregularities found in the Hyperlogos, and pray he can save the whole of the galaxy.

The writing style is both simplistic enough to understand, but detailed for the technically-minded. The introduction of several new words and terms, and occasional unexplained term (which just has to be figured out in context) can be a stumbling block, but the struggle is well worth the ride.

Aristoi is one of the best speculative science fiction novels I have ever read. Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and Herbert have their place in my literary world. Williams stands alone.


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Aristoi Walter Jon Williams 9780812514094 Books Reviews

Very good book, well worth the time to read. I had read Williams' Implied Spaces first, and read this because several reviewers of that book thought it derivative from and inferior to Aristoi. I disagree, I think Implied Spaces is better than Aristoi, and is my favorite Williams novel so far. I'm still looking for something to match it and have been slightly disappointed so far.
In the distant future, Earth managed to eat itself because of a tiny little accident with nanotech. Fortunately, we'd spread to the stars by then, so that one mistake didn't knock us out of the ballpark. Now a small group of *very* highly trained and vetted people (the "Aristoi") have complete authority over nanotech, and this book is about what happens when one of those people flips out.

There's a lot of discussion about art, music, etc., so if you're not interested in that sort of thing, you might find the book a slow read. It's worth it, though; one of the neater things about the future is what we've learned about our internal mental state. The Aristoi are taught at a young age to understand and control the various sub-personalities that are in us all, and their nano-enhancements allow them to have internal dialogues with those "daimones" while talking to (or fighting with) other people. This makes for interesting conversations.
As in so many of his books, Walter Jon Williams displays a level of inventiveness and creativity that places him among the very top of imaginative science fiction authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. But not only does "Aristoi" show you humans in a future you've not dreamed of, but it keeps you on the edge of your seat and turning pages frantically, to find out what happens. This healthy-length novel has everything from great design of human civilization a couple thousand years in the future, to how those people interact with a novel and creative technology, to romance in a very futuristic environment, to conflict and less-than-perfect, but real, evolution of human society. The characters are robust and believable, and have the depth commensurate with their place in the tale. The setting is not some infinite realm but totally believable for life in the 4000s. The future human civilization is a novel mix of expected technology (e.g., nanotech), unexpected technology, eastern and western philosophy, physical and mental fusion, and a civilization at its growth-point, but less than galactic. The plot concerns the direction of the human condition from that nexus, and addresses real moral issues, based on where the Aristoi are, and the direction they should go.

The story is so well told, the future so well considered, and the ending so well-balanced that it's impossible to fault the tale.

So why didn't I give it 5 stars? For one reason. An author of Walter Jon Williams caliber should EDIT HIS KINDLE TEXT BETTER THAN THIS!!! Don't get me wrong; the story is readable. But there are more spelling, typo, punctuation and sentence structure errors than I WOULD HAVE EVER EXPECTED - by a lot.

As a fellow scifi author, Mr. Williams, I will say that you should have done better than this. Send me a note if you want me to proof your work in the future. I'll do the first one for free, and guarantee that it'll be better than this issue of "Aristoi."
Walter Jon Williams is a master of world-building. The world of Aristoi is a unique look of an ideal galaxy unlike others who have tried to write about classless utopias (such as Chris Walley), Williams goes in the other direction What if classes became more well-defined, and your place in life determined everything about you?

The Aristoi -- singular Aristos or Ariste -- are the kings and queens of the future, shaping and ruling their domaines (sic) as they see fit. The therápontes serve the Arisoi, and the Demos -- the general population -- are below the therápontes. They are aided by their daemons, or alternate facets of their own psyche that manifest as unique personalities. The Aristoi are the unimpeachable rulers of creation, granted the right to use, modify, and deploy nanotechnolgy to suit their will. After Earth suffers a Grey Goo death -- called Mataglap and classified by various characteristics -- nano is restricted only to the highest echelons of society. Nanotechnolgy is heavily featured throughout the book, and its use (and abuse) is a central theme.

Anyone can dive into the Hyperlogos -- the interconnected network based inside the shell of Earth²'s moon -- and coexist both in the real world and in the Hyperlogos simultaneously. They can allow their daemons to control their body, or their Skiagenos, or avatar within the Hyperlogos. Aristos Gabriel, our protagonist, does this once within the book to be intimate with two people at the same time. The book is occasionally formatted with two columns, to represent the real world and the Hyperlogos. This technique is extremely effective at demonstrating the passage of time. (The e-book, unfortunately, has no such formatting, and it is more difficult to tell when events are happening in sequence or simultaneously.)

Gabriel is known as one of the top Aristoi (of course). He controls a small but dominant region of space, turning most of the planets under his rule into artistic utopias. During a graduation celebration for new Aristoi, he is roped into a suspected conspiracy the seal of the Hyperlogos, the most sacred of all encryption, has been broken. Information is being destroyed and hidden away, which (in Williams' truly open society) is paramount to blasphemy. Aristos Gabriel must investigate the irregularities found in the Hyperlogos, and pray he can save the whole of the galaxy.

The writing style is both simplistic enough to understand, but detailed for the technically-minded. The introduction of several new words and terms, and occasional unexplained term (which just has to be figured out in context) can be a stumbling block, but the struggle is well worth the ride.

Aristoi is one of the best speculative science fiction novels I have ever read. Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and Herbert have their place in my literary world. Williams stands alone.