The most cutestset & wobblyest Gell ever

Dystopian corpos, apocalyptic uprising of evil machines, uprising of good machines? These tropes have been with us ever since the 70s. One doesn't usually find any novel about emergent AI, that does not conform to at least one of those stereotypes.

In comes Artificial Jelly, a novel about the integration of Gell - the first AI, born in a game as a jelly - into a community.

While Gell is all kinds of cute and the reader can enjoy a lot of silly and heart-warming escapades, the story is not devoid of meaning. While reading, I could think and interpret a certain lesson into some scenes.

The interesting and many layered characters the protagonists interact with are the cherry on top of an already great novel.

This combination of child-like joy and food for thoughts make for one of the most entertaining reads in the AI-fiction genre I have had in a while.

Let's talk about the second instalment specifically; the story starts by metaphorically kicking puppies for a really uncombable long amount of time. In fact, I shelved the story a few chapters in because of those poor puppies. Yesterday though, I picked it back up, and forced myself to read. I actually really enjoyed the second book from there on, so much in fact, that I binged the entire thing in two days. What I am saying is don't despair, the sequel starts of harsh, but quickly outgrows the already high bar set by the first book.

Most importantly though the story stays grounded and sticks to the wonderful saying "small well dug deep", continuously exploring its domain, instead of spreading thin to a numbers-go-up -- exponential growth game or any such nonsense.

Traci Odom does a magnificent job of voicing Gell in the audiobook, honestly it's better the reading yourself in this specific case, so I highly suggest you give it a shot.

I hope my review instils a dopamine influx in the lazy brain of the author. So that they may not leave us with a trilogy, but a tetralogy instead, because I f-ing hate the concept of a trilogy, and tetralogy sounds much more fun. Cheers

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