Permutation City
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The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. PERMUTATION CITY is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - PERMUTATION CITY is filled with the sense of wonder.
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2 released booksSubjective Cosmology
Subjective Cosmology is a 2-book series first released in 1994 with contributions by Greg Egan.
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Boo. I stopped this book about a quarter of the way in. Story still hadn't created any fundamental tension. Just hard work. Very disappointing.
Yeah, good scientific speculations, some very good philosophical dilemmas, but no story, no tension or action, no characters (just names talking to each other, but with nothing to set them apart as personalities), lame and dry writing... in short, extremely boring. I actually “did not like it”, the extra star is for the speculations I thought myself because of it.
Consider that downloading your consciousness into a computer was possible. That means you could live forever, as long as somebody maintained that computer. Now imagine that a rich guy employed a software developer to write a software package that was self-preserving and could not be destroyed because it was deployed across some vast system, and in that package were various levels of habitat for downloads to live. Forever is now becoming more of a possibility.
Welcome to Permutation City. What could possibly go wrong?
