Central Station

275 pages

Langue : English

Publié 30 octobre 2016 par Tachyon Pub..

ISBN :
978-1-61696-214-2
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Numéro OCLC :
915503982

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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' 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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Sujets

  • Fiction
  • Space stations
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Telepathy

Lieux

  • Tel Aviv (Israel)