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Cargando... Whiteout (1996)por Sage Walker
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A William Gibson kind of look at a situation where people interact more in cyberspace than they do in the real world. A team of people are hired by a Japanese fishing company to help sway world opinion toward their policy. One of the team goes to the Antarctic to check things out, and disappears, so another of the team members goes to find him. She does, but then his rescue helicopter crashes and he dies. In the meantime, the team finds that the Japanese company has misled them, and their goals are not what was explained to the team. A story with plenty of intrigue. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Sage Walker's suspenseful, Locus Award-winning first novel,Whiteout, takes us to a twenty-first century Earth wheregovernment means multinational corporation. And daily living means a struggle to survive the effects of overpopulation, poverty, pollution, and hunger. One last hope remains: Antarctica, the only source of pristine water and food left on the planet. Antarctica is protected from human exploitation by international treaty--and that treaty's due for renegotiation. The people who have the talents to influence the outcome of these negotiations run Edges, a company of media manipulators. They've been hired by one of the corporations for whom the current situation suits them just fine, and they'd like to keep it that way. This team knows that they have the skills to make whatever they want happen. But they also know that if they succeed, they might doom the planet. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A thrilling concoction of sleek SF gadgets and messy human politics, Whiteout posits convincing possibilities for the future uses of network technology. It feels, in many ways, like a successor to William Gibson's Neuromancer, but where Neuromancer was rooted in the disposable nihilism of the 1980's, Whiteout is influenced by the DIY agency of the '90's, a decade that seemed full of possibilities and capabilities. Whiteout is cyberpunk with hugs. Nowhere is that touchy-feely aesthetic more apparent than in the Edges themselves, a group of artists and scientists so intricately (and incestuously) linked through virtual reality that they share every tactile sensation experienced by each member. ( )