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Mappa Mundi
| Author: | Justina Robson |
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Ballantine Books, 2006 Macmillan UK, 2001 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The map of everything you know everything you are everything you ever will be just got rewritten.
A novel of hard SF exploring the nature of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britains most acclaimed new talents. In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it possible to map a model of the living human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a cutting-edge military project for creating comprehensive mind-control. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Jude Westhorpe, FBI specialist, is tracking a cold war defector long involved in everything from gene sequencing to mind-mapping. But his investigation has begun to affect matters of national securitythrowing Jude and Natalie together as partners in troubledeep trouble from every direction. This fascinating novel explores the nature of humanity in the near future, when the power and potential of developing technologies demand that we adapt ourselves to their existencewhatever the price.
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