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Zendegi
β Scribed by Greg Egan
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group;Gollancz
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and she ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions. Then, 15 years later, the Connectome Project is revived.
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