Greg Egan: Diaspora (2008)
ISBN: 9780575082090
Greg Egan: Diaspora (2008)
ISBN: 9780575082090
5 550 Ft
currently out of stock, expected back in stock: 2-3 weeks
Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software.
Read moreproduct.attributes
ISBN
9780575082090
Author
Greg Egan
Pages
352
Binding
Soft cover
Publisher
GOLLANCZ
Date of publication
2008
Format
Book
Language
English
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.