- Brain, Virtual reality, Computer simulation, Fiction
Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and she ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions. Then, 15 years later, the Connectome Project is revived.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Greg Egan
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Night Shade, Gollancz, Le livre de poche
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781597801744
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