Zendegi Paperback / softback
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:14/07/2011
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- ISBN:9780575086203
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:14/07/2011
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- ISBN:9780575086203