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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by RichaThe Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanaganrd Flanagan The world is burning and the sixth mass extinction is under way. When Anna’s finger disappears, and then a short while later her knee, she thinks curiously little of it. But then she begins to notice disappearances everywhere, and all around people refuse to see what is really happening. The Booker Prize winner’s eighth novel is a raging tale about grief and loss that asks existential questions – is prolonging death the same as living? Will we refuse to see the flames? – but which ...

  NEIL MACKAY’S BIG READ: Why artificial intelligence will either be the saviour or exterminator of the human race AI HERE’S how quickly, how dangerously, artificial intelligence is moving: one day after Brian Christian sat in his office, near Berkeley University in California, warning The Herald on Sunday about the imminent perils of a powerful AI being sent out onto social media by a rogue state to ramp up online hate and division, South Korea turned its worried attention to a character called Lee Luda. Luda is just 20. She is a university student who gained 750,000 “friends�...