false <![CDATA[The Red Men]]> 2263657 1 <p>"Makes Michel Houellebecq seem like Enid Blyton."-Matt Thorne</p><p>Nelson used to be a radical journalist, but now he works for Monad, one of the world's leading corporations. Monad makes the Red Men-tireless, intelligent, creative, and entirely virtual corporate workers-and it's looking to expand the program.</p><p>Nelson finds himself at the helm of a grand project whose goals appear increasingly authoritarian and potentially catastrophic. As the boundaries between Redtown and the real world become ever more brittle, Nelson finds himself forced to choose sides: the corporation or the community, the real or the virtual.</p> 2269665 1 1 2007 The Red Men total:9|5:2|4:5|3:2| 9 36 18 2 0 1 false false Thu Jun 26 11:39:35 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 11:44:18 -0700 2008
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