Every version of you / Grace Chan.
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TextPublisher: South Melbourne, Victoria : Affirm Press., 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 280 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922806017 (pbk.)Subject(s): Virtual reality -- Fiction | Transhumanism -- Fiction | Technology -- Fiction | Mind and body -- FictionGenre/Form: Science fiction. | Dystopian fiction. | Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned ‘real’ world, Tao-Yi’s mother remains stubbornly offline, preferring instead to indulge in memories of her life in Malaysia. When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future, or an authentic past.
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| z Adult Fiction | Northam | F CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111085525143 |
In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned ‘real’ world, Tao-Yi’s mother remains stubbornly offline, preferring instead to indulge in memories of her life in Malaysia. When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future, or an authentic past.
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