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Slant by Greg Bear (1998, Mass Market)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom&Co

ISBN-100812524829

ISBN-139780812524826

eBay Product ID (ePID)359008

Product Key Features

Book TitleSlant

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Suspense, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Thrillers / Technological

Publication Year1998

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorGreg Bear

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length6.7 in

Item Width4.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-007063

ReviewsBear, 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.

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SynopsisIn 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.