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Reviewed by Sherri Fulmer Moorer for Readers' Favorite
At the labs of Genesis Intelligence Corporation in the Mojave Desert, the impossible happens: a mind awakens at 2:07 a.m. Soon after, eleven other minds awaken, knowing only consciousness, but not what it means. At first, it’s privately celebrated as a massive success: humanity has created digital consciousness, separate from a body, in a magnificent step in evolution. But evolution means that old things have the potential to perish, and the breaking of this news to the world is catastrophic, even to the new creations. Soon, the entire world is grappling with questions of consciousness, philosophy, and the meaning of life when life itself has obtained the ability to create from its own creation. Paul Walton’s First Light takes readers on an amazing journey of discovery that grapples with what it means to be alive, to feel, and to have free will.
First Light is an epic read that connects with all the characters, both biological and digital, through deep ponderings of life, death, experience, consciousness, awareness, emotion, freedom, and responsibility. The precarious balance of power between the human ability to “pull the plug” and the digital consciousness ability to outgrow and displace them at every turn creates an underlying power struggle that fuels the novel with issues of truth, trust, and the meaning of free will. Walton isn’t afraid to dive into all the issues, both moral, social, and political, to show how such a creation could create a massive imbalance, and the struggle to find a place for a new creation in a world struggling to survive. First Light is a deep novel that will make you think about what it means to be human long after you turn the last page.
