The Great Gambler
Release Date: Saturday, March 23rd, 2024
Published by: The Inky Red
Pages: 232 pages
ISBN 13: 9798990107700
"The Great Gambler" by YRSD NYDU explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and high finance on Wall Street, blending economic theory with a narrative that challenges traditional storytelling conventions.
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"Godless AI found in fraudless firm!" / "Life emerges in New York... but just wants to make money" / "Greed is code"
HARD SCI-FI takes on HIGH FINANCE at the black-edge of Wall Street... where capital emerges from human yearning and declares that it MUST GO ON.
Dear reader,
If you must have a blurb - if you must subject narrative to insufferable compression - then here you go. In THE GREAT GAMBLER, you will encounter a log of our late-stage malaise, and it will be wrapped for you in the shiny foil of sci-finance, in econ-blog con-theory and boiler-room gas.
On one side you will find Lefevre - a shamelessly Zizekian big-other, whose presence will warp the symbolic order through the gravitational sink of capital accumulation. And opposing him will be your perhaps-protagonist, a "struggling analyst"... (what can that even mean?)... who will claim to hunt for value within the cold math of the fiscal regime.
But do not be fooled by promises of a "pulse-pounding thriller," because the author Yrsd Nydu intends to feed you a parade of "thinly drawn-out characters" who are less "fully-realized individuals" and more the "meta-textualized personifications of various economic theories." For example: there will be an interrogator who will roleplay the regulatory state, an oligarch who will be abstracted from various flows of capital, and - of course and what else! - a critic who will become a post-modern circ-#ref by bearing the name of the author himself.
(There will also be a woman named Nina Noble, a void around which the system will orbit.)
So yes, to read THE GREAT GAMBLER will be to participate in the gamble itself: to bet that you - my "dear reader" - can plunge into this work not despite but because, because only the failure to satisfy can reveal the true h****r of emergent existence.
Etc., and so on,
YN
HARD SCI-FI takes on HIGH FINANCE at the black-edge of Wall Street... where capital emerges from human yearning and declares that it MUST GO ON.
Dear reader,
If you must have a blurb - if you must subject narrative to insufferable compression - then here you go. In THE GREAT GAMBLER, you will encounter a log of our late-stage malaise, and it will be wrapped for you in the shiny foil of sci-finance, in econ-blog con-theory and boiler-room gas.
On one side you will find Lefevre - a shamelessly Zizekian big-other, whose presence will warp the symbolic order through the gravitational sink of capital accumulation. And opposing him will be your perhaps-protagonist, a "struggling analyst"... (what can that even mean?)... who will claim to hunt for value within the cold math of the fiscal regime.
But do not be fooled by promises of a "pulse-pounding thriller," because the author Yrsd Nydu intends to feed you a parade of "thinly drawn-out characters" who are less "fully-realized individuals" and more the "meta-textualized personifications of various economic theories." For example: there will be an interrogator who will roleplay the regulatory state, an oligarch who will be abstracted from various flows of capital, and - of course and what else! - a critic who will become a post-modern circ-#ref by bearing the name of the author himself.
(There will also be a woman named Nina Noble, a void around which the system will orbit.)
So yes, to read THE GREAT GAMBLER will be to participate in the gamble itself: to bet that you - my "dear reader" - can plunge into this work not despite but because, because only the failure to satisfy can reveal the true h****r of emergent existence.
Etc., and so on,
YN