Distress
Author: Greg Egan
In his latest novel, the author of Permutation City and Quarantine creates a fragmented futuristic world where technology and bio-engineering threaten humanity’s very existence. The year is 2055, and the world’s only hope for survival lies in Violet Mosasa’s development of a final Theory of Everything. But whether it will lead to the total destruction of Life As We Know It….Read More
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