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Zendegi Book
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 ...Read More
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Blackwell
SF's top ideas man brings us a thrilling tale of loss and human endeavour. 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...
- 0575086203
- 9780575086203
- Greg Egan
- 14 July 2011
- Gollancz
- Paperback (Book)
- 368
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