Unfortunately Academia’s facade of civility is dangerously cracked with a seething maelstrom of plotting, assassination attempts, and rebellion and Worth is dragged down into the nightmare. To get the real sbacksy, he goes to Stateless to cover the Einstein Centenary Conference where academic science is ready to reveal the ultimate breakthrough. But a wired journalist, Andrew Worth, doesn’t want any part of the pop ‘Frankenscience’ regularly dished out to the mas*ses. ‘The illusion of empathy’ has been dispensed with, and a few idealistic souls try to create a Utopia with pirated technology. It is the year 2055 and the battle of the sexes has seven combatants rather than two. Greg Egan’s audacious voice and literary scope create a fragmented futuristic world where technology and bio engineering threaten humanity’s very existence.
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