Zendegi EPUB
by Greg Egan
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Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people.
Fifteen years later, a revived Connectome Project has published a map of the brain. Zendegi is facing fierce competition from its rivals, and Nasim decides to exploit the map to fill the virtual world with better Proxies: the bit-players that bring its crowd scenes to life. As controversy rages over the nature and rights of the Proxies, a friend with terminal cancer begs Nasim to make a Proxy of him, so some part of him will survive to help raise his orphaned son. But Zendegi is about to become a battlefield ...
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- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Orion
- Publication Date:17/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780575086210
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Orion
- Publication Date:17/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780575086210