Permutation City
The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly.The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the you that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned,...
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The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly.The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the you that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy.The good news is that there is a way out. By law, every Copy has the option of terminating itself, and waking up to normal flesh-and-blood life again. The bail-out is on the utilities menu. You pull it down...The bad news is that it doesn't work. Someone has blocked the bail-out option. And you know who did it. You did. The other you. The real you. The one that wants to keep you here forever.
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Format: Mass Market
ISBN:
9780061054815 (006105481X)
Publish date: October 1st 1995
Publisher: HarperPrism
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Computer Science,
Computers,
Speculative Fiction,
Philosophy,
Hard Science Fiction,
Cyberpunk,
Australia
Series: Subjective Cosmology Cycle (#2)
Some interesting ideas on the transition to transhumanism, but not enough to keep me reading to the end.
(Read originally in 1994)."I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me"...Learning to be meWith this starts off one of the most astonishing short stories I've ever read. If you haven't read it, I urge you to do so. Egan questions ...
Permutation City by Greg EganI don't read a lot of hard sf because my understanding of science is rudimentary at best, but I do tend to enjoy it when I read one that do not go too far over my head. I feel I only need to understand the basic plot and the characters' motivation, the whys if not the ho...
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