false <![CDATA[Everyone in Silico]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173896776m/342203.jpg 342203 2 In Jim Munroe's near-future novel <I>Everyone in Silico</I>, San Francisco has been destroyed by an earthquake and replaced by the virtual city of Frisco. Nearly everyone on earth wants to move to this fashionable cyberworld. This is no surprise. The physical world has become a sort of virtual reality: no one has privacy, and everyone is monitored by the corporations. Everyone is both consumer and salesperson, earning money by shilling cigarettes or software to strangers and friends. Why not abandon the flesh for the everlasting cyberspace of Frisco?<p>Still, not everyone seeks to leave the "meat" world. A genetic-engineering artist known as Nicky creates rat-dog splices to sell to naive tourists and resists her mother's pleas to live in Frisco. Professional adman Doug Patterson watches his city, job, and marriage start to crumble as his coworkers and neighbors move online. When she loses her 12-year-old grandson to Frisco, Eileen Ellis dons her old military bodysuit and becomes, once again, a deadly supersoldier--but this time, she serves no corporate master. And Paul, mysterious soul in the cybermachine, seeks to orchestrate a new destiny for the human race.<p><I>Everyone in Silico</I> is the third novel by Jim Munroe, the former managing editor of radical anti-advertising magazine <I>Adbusters</I>. As a book, <I>Everyone in Silico</I> is rather wobbly. The pace is unvarying, the dialogue is sometimes slack, and the climax is diffuse. But like Steve Aylett and Paul Di Filippo, his fellow science-fiction satirists at publisher Four Walls Eight Windows, Monroe is unorthodox, off-kilter, and interesting. <I>--Cynthia Ward</I> 2999030 21 11 2002 Everyone in Silico total:75|5:17|4:37|3:18|2:3| 75 293 105 18 4 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 22 19:25:34 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 19:25:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 10:30:06 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 09:49:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 28 15:35:58 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 15:37:18 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 30 15:55:40 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 16:00:08 -0700 2007 Jennifer Government.

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