ICICLE: A Tensor Matrix (Oort Chronicles #1) by Robert G Williscroft

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 4, 2020

His head frozen at death, engineer and entrepreneur Braxton Thorpe awakens to existence inside an electronic matrix. Discovering the global Link System, he taps into databases and expands to become a Tensor Matrix with access to virtually all human knowledge. He works with Daphne O’Bryan and other researchers, then is joined by an extraordinary non-human partner as he generalizes his existence from Banach Space into a Banach Manifold. Using complex tensors to extend beyond the matrix, he detects a malevolent presence in the Link system, an alien with bad intent. Braxton and Daphne must locate and reach out to this alien civilization, but what will they find, and will it be too late for mankind?

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REVIEW: ICICLE: A TENSOR MATRIX is the first instalment in Robert G Williscroft’s hard, science fiction story line focusing on engineer and entrepreneur Braxton Thorpe, and his consciousness journey into the electronic matrix.

Told from third person perspective ICICLE: A TENSOR MATRIX follows engineer and entrepreneur Braxton Thorpe into the twenty-second century. Approximately one hundred years earlier, Braxton Thorpe died but his head was cryogenically frozen until such a time the technology became available to reanimate the human consciousness. Fast forward to the early twenty-second century wherein Braxton Thorpe’s consciousness is uploaded into a tensor matrix (ala Tron), where our hero will discover he is not the only consciousness ‘aware’ in the matrix. With all of human knowledge available to Braxton Thorpe, our hero, along with scientists, mathematicians, computer specialists and an alien civilization known as the Oort, will endeavour to save Earth and humanity from a Marauder invasion.

ICICLE: A TENSOR MATRIX is a complex, infinitely detailed, technologically diverse, hard science fiction story line that focuses on the possibility of the awareness of the human consciousness in a computer matrix, and the resulting immortality for those willing to undergo a consciousness exchange. Robert G Williscroft pulls the reader into a world of wormhole portals, alien civilizations, rapid planetary transport, and the duality of mankind both in and out of the matrix. When Earth is threatened by an unknown enemy, politics plays hard and fast, and the resulting strain mirrors twenty and twenty-first century tensions.

If you are a fan of hard, science fiction (using mathematics, chemistry and physics) ICICLE is the perfect vehicle to ask the questions what if and how.

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Reviewed by Sandy