TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chan,Grace
TI  - Every version of you
SN  - 9781922806017 (pbk.)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - South Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - Affirm Press.
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Transhumanism
KW  - Technology
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
N2  - 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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