Zendegi
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597801755 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thoughtful speculation The idea of mapping and uploading human consciousness isn't new to science fiction. Indeed, Egan has explored it in a couple of his earlier novels and in his short stories. Other SF writers have done so too. But Zendegi isn't stale or hackneyed; quite the opposite in fact.Zendegi is the name of a virtual reality role-playing game whose designers manage to create game characters from partially mapped human minds. They do so for commer. A clever near future Sci-fi Amazon Customer Many reviewers have suggested that this book is not up to the same standards as previous Egan's books. Indeed it is not a thousand year later story or it does not happen in a different galaxy. The book is loosely based on the events following the disputed presidential election of 2009 in Iran. Reading through the first chapters, I was wondering how the book would turn into a science fiction novel. But it did. The story is inspired by. "Quiet but insightful" according to Mec. This was my first Egan book so I didn't have any expectations coming in.Egan really thinks through his characters: both his protagonists have fleshed out motives and lives. The minor characters, too, rise above spear-carriers and stereotypes.The book is quiet in that most of the protagonist's actions aren't the nexus of world-wide change -- they are seeking personal goals in a rapidly changing world. Most of the philosophical points
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Nasim Golestani, a young Iranian scientist living in exile in the United States, is hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project — which aims to construct a detailed map of the wiring of the human brain — but when government funding for the project is canceled and a chance comes to return to her homeland, she chooses to head back to Iran.Fifteen years after the revolution, Martin is living in Iran with his wife and young son, while Nasim is in charge of the virtual world known as Zendegi, used by millions of people f
Shortly after Iranian scientist Nasim Golestani develops a way to make proxies so lifelike that some people believe they should have the same rights as humans, journalist Martin Seymour, an Australian living in Iran, finds out that he might not live to raise his young son, Javeed. Egan (Crystal Nights and Other Stories) creates a thought-provoking, intensely personal story about conflicting instincts and desires as technology recapitulates humanity. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. All rights reserved.