Diaspora: The dark, post-apocalyptic thriller perfect for fans of BLACK MIRROR and Philip K. Dick - Brossura

Egan, Greg

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0575082097 ISBN 13: 9780575082090

Casa editrice: Gollancz, 2008

Riassunto

Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Others opted for gleisners: disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contact with the physical world of force and friction. Many of these have left the solar system forever in fusion-drive starships.

And there are the holdouts: the fleshers left behind in the muck and jungle of Earth-some devolved into dream apes, others cavorting in the seas or the air-while the statics and bridgers try to shape out a roughly human destiny.

But the complacency of the citizens is shattered when an unforeseen disaster ravages the fleshers and reveals the possibility that the polises themselves might be at risk from bizarre astrophysical processes that seem to violate fundamental laws of nature. The orphan Yatima, a digital being grown from a mind seed, joins a group of citizens and flesher refugees in a search for the knowledge that will guarantee their safety-a search that puts them on the trail of the ancient and elusive Transmuters, who have the power to reshape subatomic particles, and to cross into the macrocosmos, where the universe we know is nothing but a speck in the higher-dimensional vacuum.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation.

L'autore:

Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He has won the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and has been shortlisted for the HUGO AWARD three times.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Gollancz
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0575082097
• ISBN 13: 9780575082090
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352