SLANT by Greg Bear TOR 1997 1st Printing Vintage Hard Science Fiction Paperback

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Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Type
Novel
Publication Name
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Materials sourced from
United States
Vintage
Yes
ISBN
9780812524826
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-10
0812524829
ISBN-13
9780812524826
eBay Product ID (ePID)
359008

Product Key Features

Book Title
Slant
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Thrillers / Technological
Publication Year
1998
Features
Revised
Genre
Fiction
Author
Greg Bear
Format
Mass Market

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
6.7 in
Item Width
4.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-007063
Reviews
Bear, who's won two Hugos and four Nebulas, should rack up nominations if not wins for this one as well., "This dense and tense novel...shows that Bear is one of our very best, and most innovative, speculative writers." --New York Daily News "Seattle's reigning master of hard-edged science fiction takes a chilling look at the plausible near-future." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Bear, who's won two Hugos and four Nebulas, should rack up nominations if not wins for this one as well." --Publishers Weekly (starred review), This dense and tense novel...shows that Bear is one of our very best, and most innovative, speculative writers., "This dense and tense novel...shows that Bear is one of our very best, and most innovative, speculative writers." -- New York Daily News "Seattle's reigning master of hard-edged science fiction takes a chilling look at the plausible near-future." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Bear, who's won two Hugos and four Nebulas, should rack up nominations if not wins for this one as well." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), Seattle's reigning master of hard-edged science fiction takes a chilling look at the plausible near-future.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence. It's a sane and perfect world. Almost. A man called Jack Giffey is planning to break into the Omphalos, the most secure building in all of separatist Green Idaho. Rumor says that the Omphalos houses the not-quite-dead, the very wealthy deceased who are still alive, their brains connected directly into Thinkers, Artificial Intelligences that provide a virtual reality. Data is the great treasure of the new millennium, and Giffey plans to tap into the Omphalos datastream, to steal the knowledge gathered by the inhabitants of the Omphalos. In the offices of Mind Design, Inc., the most advanced Artificial Intelligence in the world has had a unique experience. She has received a request for contact from a new AI, one she does not know and did not help to design. Jill has never met a stranger of her own kind before; is it an alien Thinker, or the offspring of some vast conspiracy? Slant is set in Bear's Queen of Angels universe, and is one of the great science fiction novels of the 1990s.

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