Zendegi by Greg Egan
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 ...
One of the genre's great ideas men- The Times.The universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan. - New Scientist.Egan is perhaps the most exciting SF writer at work today. - Daily Telegraph.It is one of Egan's great skills that he makes the passion of science appear understandable, even inevitable, to non-scientists. - Foundation.Greg Egan has no equal in the field of hard SF novels. - Starburst.
Greg Egan's highly acclaimed science fiction has won him many major awards in the UK, the US and Japan. He lives in Perth, Western Australia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780575086173 |
| ISBN 10 | 0575086173 |
| Title | Zendegi |
| Author | Greg Egan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2010-06-17 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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