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Loading... Permutation City (1994)by Greg Egan
http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2013/02/review-of-permutation-city-by-greg-egan... (  ) HanJie | Feb 11, 2013 |  Egan, Greg  Vojta_V. | Apr 9, 2012 | 8 (  ) agdturner | Aug 5, 2011 | I'm very, very stingy with my five-star ratings, but had no qualms about giving one to Permutation City. Egan managed to write a story about cellular automata, of all things, which sent chills down my spine. Mind-blowingly wonderful.Oh, any by the way: the publisher blurb (which makes it sound like a scifi mystery) and the "ten million people on a chip" tagline for this book are not just misleading, but false. (You don't have to read very far to understand why the blurb, at least, is bullshit.) ( )1  tomxtobin | Jan 23, 2011 | cshalizi | Nov 24, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 006105481X, Mass Market Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:04:36 -0400) No library descriptions found. |
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