Inter Ice Age 4 by Kōbō Abe, E.Dale Sanders (Translator)
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Overview: Inter Ice Age 4′ is a chilling, futuristic novel by one of Japan’s greatest living writers. It is the account of Professor Katsumi of Tokyo who has assembled and programmed a computer which, given all the available facts about a person or situation, can predict the future. Because a similar computer in Moscow is being use to make forecasts of a political nature, his institute’s governing body decides to avoid politics and try to forsee the future of an individual. A man is picked, apparently at random, only to be murdered before he can be programmed, but the computer can still read his mind. The resulting involvements are complicated by a climactic shift–Inter Ice Age 4–which puts earth under water.
This novel is surprisingly fresh for a novel that was written in 1958. The topics covered–AI computers, genetic engineering, and global warming are all very current. The story spirals to a tense conclusion, so the reader is pulled in. The story also has a strong psychological edge. It explores the difference between what a person wants to do and what a person has to do. Also, it brings up a lot a questions about the nature of the future. Can people in the present judge the future? Abe argues that the future cannot be judged. In Abe’s words, who could say whether the people from the past would consider our present a heaven or a hell. Only the present can judge the past, not vice versa.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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