A review by maxed
In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford

2.0

While there might be a few good ideas here, I generally disliked this book. A lot of dialogues are simply atrocious, "stream-of-consciousness" moments are confusing and hard to read, and the number of times the main character lucks into a major plot advancement break immersion a lot. There is pretty much nothing to offset all that: "alien computers are coming to get us" wasn't a new idea at the time, and been done to death since. The book even throws in the old stupid saw that "computer intelligences are inflexible and can't understand emotions" which was tired even at the time.