The candy house / Information technology Businesspeople Memories Memory transfer
Egan, Jennifer,
The candy house / Jennifer Egan. - 334 pages ; 24 cm.
It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's 40, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalising' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious – that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others – has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades.
9781472150936 1472150937
Information technology--Fiction.
Businesspeople--Fiction.
Memories--Fiction.
Memory transfer--Fiction.
Science fiction.
The candy house / Jennifer Egan. - 334 pages ; 24 cm.
It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's 40, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalising' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious – that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others – has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades.
9781472150936 1472150937
Information technology--Fiction.
Businesspeople--Fiction.
Memories--Fiction.
Memory transfer--Fiction.
Science fiction.