Zendegi

Name: Zendegi
Brand: Orion Publishing Co
SKU: 9780575086203
Price: 132.55 RON
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Autor: Greg Egan

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Editura: Orion Publishing Co

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Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map...

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Autor

Greg Egan

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2011

Pagini

368

EAN

9780575086203

ISBN

0575086203

Enbook ID

04376467

Editura

Orion Publishing Co

Greutate

258

Dimensiuni

130 x 196 x 25

Descriere completă

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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