Wetware
by Craig Nova
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As a programmer for Galapagos Wetware, Hal Briggs is responsible for writing the genetic code for simple, efficient creatures to be employed in menial jobs–sweeping streets or washing dishes. But the demands for “wetware” are changing, and Briggs is given a project that calls for more sophisticated models: clients are demanding more human appearance and behavior. As the project progresses, Briggs finds himself endowing the new models with more than the specifications dictate, giving show more them distinct personalities and talents and highly developed acumens. When two of his pet projects, Jack and Kay, escape, Briggs reexamines their codes and makes a terrifying yet provocative discovery. From Craig Nova, a master of the modern novel, comes a tale eerie in its vision of a future not far off, of a world precariously close to today’s. show lessTags
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Bioprogrammer writes code for pair of humans including capacity for love and regeneration. Very powerful writing about what love and beauty "feel" like.
I just never felt that urgency to keep turning the pages. I've heard great things about Nova, so maybe this one was just a miss.
Interesting premise but the writing wasn't all that great. Some of the descriptions were rambling and I had trouble following it.
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Craig Nova is the author of nine widely praised & translated novels. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Nova lives in Vermont. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Original publication date
- 2002
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- Languages
- English
- Media
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