Mappa Mundi
The map of everything you know everything you are everything you ever will be just got rewritten A novel of hard SF exploring the nature of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britain’s most acclaimed new talents. In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it...
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The map of everything you know everything you are everything you ever will be just got rewritten A novel of hard SF exploring the nature of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britain’s most acclaimed new talents. In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it possible to map a model of the living human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a cutting-edge military project for creating comprehensive mind-control. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Jude Westhorpe, FBI specialist, is tracking a cold war defector long involved in everything from gene sequencing to mind-mapping. But his investigation has begun to affect matters of national security—throwing Jude and Natalie together as partners in trouble—deep trouble from every direction. This fascinating novel explores the nature of humanity in the near future, when the power and potential of developing technologies demand that we adapt ourselves to their existence—whatever the price.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781591024910 (1591024919)
Publish date: September 5th 2006
Publisher: Pyr
Pages no: 523
Edition language: English
Natalie Armstrong sees the world, and the mind, differently. She's on the cutting edge of innovation using technology to repair and bridge neural pathways. But what can heal can also hurt, and her technology is leaked to the less scrupulous and less patient. So starts a game of cat and mouse with...
Have had this kicking around for years, and have finally got around to reading it, and wish I had earlier.Readly good near future sci fi, looking at a form of mind control, and the battle between the various agencies to control this technology. Has a number of main characters, and various threads th...
(review originally posted on my livejournal account: http://intoyourlungs.livejournal.com)I have never heard of this book before. I've heard of Justina Robson before, but I've never read her or really had any inclination to (not that I think she's a bad author, but the one book I heard about by her,...