β Scribed by Maurice G. Dantec
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The first major English translation of one of France's most admired writers, Cosmos Incorporated is a triumph of science fiction--a masterwork of cataclysm, mysticism, and suspense.
Fifty years of warfare, disease, and strife have decimated the world's population. Those who remain are motes in the mind of UniWorld, a superstate that monitors humanity via a vast computer metastructure that catalog everything about everyone on the planet--race, religion, genetic codes, even fantasies. Those who have the means escape UniWorld's tight control through the Orbital Ring.
Though his memory has been wiped clean and his history fabricated in order to pass through UniWorld's check points, Sergei Diego Plotkin knows his name.And he knows his mission: to murder a man in the city of Grand Junction, a Vegas-like outpost that is home to the private launching pad to the Ring. But this sense of purpose is compromised by random memories that flash through Plotkin's brain. England...
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