Hardcover, 310 pages
English language
Published April 1994 by Millennium.
Permutation City
by Greg Egan
- ISBN:
- 978-1-85798-174-2
- OCLC Number:
- 30834713
- ASIN:
- 185798174X
- Goodreads:
- 1281526
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In our children's children's children's future, immortality is possible. The human mind can be scanned and downloaded into virtual environments. The result: 'Copies', virtual people, all memory and identity intact, dependent only on the stability of world computer nets. Which leaves them vulnerable.
Paul Durham has a vision - the creation of an untouchable virtual sanctuary, which he sets about selling to the world's ultra-powerful Copies. But Paul is not motivated by profit. Obsessed with virtual and artificial life, obsessed with what he believes is a new understanding of the nature of consciousness, he does not dream of something as unimportant as money.
Paul might be mad. Or the knowledge he possesses, ultimately, just might transcend space, time, evolution, the nature of matter, the life of the universe.
Paul Durham's vision could be the stuff of the dreams of God.
Greg Egan is dynamite. His work is the fiction of …
In our children's children's children's future, immortality is possible. The human mind can be scanned and downloaded into virtual environments. The result: 'Copies', virtual people, all memory and identity intact, dependent only on the stability of world computer nets. Which leaves them vulnerable.
Paul Durham has a vision - the creation of an untouchable virtual sanctuary, which he sets about selling to the world's ultra-powerful Copies. But Paul is not motivated by profit. Obsessed with virtual and artificial life, obsessed with what he believes is a new understanding of the nature of consciousness, he does not dream of something as unimportant as money.
Paul might be mad. Or the knowledge he possesses, ultimately, just might transcend space, time, evolution, the nature of matter, the life of the universe.
Paul Durham's vision could be the stuff of the dreams of God.
Greg Egan is dynamite. His work is the fiction of ideas; his imagination, apocalyptic. Encompassing the lives and struggles of several people - the artifical-life junkie desperate to save the life of her mother, the billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, and the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - Permutation City steps beyond the boundaries of the human mind and into eternity: Permutation City beggars wonder.