Central Station

Deluxe Signed Slipcase Edition, 375 pages

English language

Published Dec. 2, 2016 by PS Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-78636-064-9
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A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.

When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.

Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the …

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Subjects

  • Space stations--Fiction.
  • Telepathy--Fiction.
  • Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.
  • Tel Aviv (Israel)--Fiction.