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  Zendegi (Paperback) By (author) Greg Egan

  

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  Short Description for ZendegiSF's top ideas man brings us a thrilling tale of loss and human endeavour.
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  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • Published: 14 July 2011
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages
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  • Categories: Science Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780575086203 ISBN 10: 0575086203
  • Sales rank: 171,564

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Full description for Zendegi

• Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people. Fifteen years later, a revived Connectome Project has published a map of the brain. Zendegi is facing fierce competition from its rivals, and Nasim decides to exploit the map to fill the virtual world with better Proxies: the bit-players that bring its crowd scenes to life. As controversy rages over the nature and rights of the Proxies, a friend with terminal cancer begs Nasim to make a Proxy of him, so some part of him will survive to help raise his orphaned son. But Zendegi is about to become a battlefield ...