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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 ...

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Science fiction

• Full title: Zendegi
• Author: Greg Egan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780575086203
• ISBN: 0575086203
• ID: 04376467
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Weight: 258 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. July 2011

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