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  Capacity (Paperback) By (author) Tony Ballantyne

  

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  Short Description for CapacityIn the 23rd century, hyper-intellgent robots exist alongside humans and cloning is commonplace. But man and artificial intelligence alike face a new threat from beyond the galaxy in this gripping novel by the author of "Recursion."
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  • Publisher: Spectra Books
  • Published: 26 December 2006
  • Format: Paperback 390 pages
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  • Categories: Science Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780553589290 ISBN 10: 0553589296
  • Sales rank: 259,871

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Full description for Capacity

• Welcome to the year 2252--and congratulations! You're now a personality construct. We know that can be a daunting stage of personal development, especially if you don't remember making this life-changing decision. But we're here to help.... Helen is waking to a dark new reality--one that she's certain she didn't choose. In this borrowed existence, she finds an unexpected guide in Judy, a geisha-faced virgin who's on a mission of her own. Together, the two of them begin a dangerous run through dozens of imagined worlds in an attempt to trap a psychopath haunting the shadowed areas of virtual space--a killer who brutally murdered an earlier version of Helen and who plans to kill again. Meanwhile, Justinian is investigating a peculiar rash of AI suicides on far-off planets--and finds that not only is there more to these "deaths" than he thought, but that they may be linked to his wife Anya's mysterious coma. In a future where AIs have taken over human life and the Environment Agency runs everything for our own good, the fact that we can live on after physical death as sentient digital beings should have been a good thing. Instead, as Helen and Justinian are about to discover, it just means there are more ways to die.