Escaping into an underworld filled with people she’s not sure she can trust by way of a previous persona’s contact: Wyeth, a man who harbors loyalty to the body she’s hijacked, rather than to her, she must take the risk and join his cause and flee into the far reaches of space or else take her chances alone against these corporations.
Burned into her brain rather than transient like most personas seem to be, Rebel becomes a highly sought-after commodity and this corporation, as well as their competitors, rapidly mobilize to get her back.
You-your being, your self-are right here, in this compass of your skull and body”Įucrasia Walsh gets implanted with a new persona called Rebel and, fearing death, flees carrying a valuable IP owned by the corporation with her: her identity. (Jan.“Your persona is only a mask…Ultimately it’s not important. But will that cure return the sufferers to themselves or leave them irrevocably changed? Swanwick weaves the story with characteristic verve and style, and though his exploration of the issues raised by the psychological viruses falls short of its potential, this is an entertaining and provocative novella.
As the sane survivors use and sometimes abuse the highly suggestible insane, Gunther and a few others search for a cure. A terrorist has released an engineered virus into the moonbase, rendering all those within it insane, and Gunther is one of the few lucky enough to have been outside at the time. Later, when a limited nuclear war breaks out on earth, Gunther finds himself in an even more prominent position. But when an unexpected solar flare catches him exposed on the moon's surface and his ingenuity alone saves him from death, Gunther becomes a sort of celebrity. Gunther Weil is an underachieving lunar laborer, content in his routine job and the occasional petty expression of insubordination. Swanwick's ( Gravity's Angels ) latest combines many elements common to his previous work: a solid hard-science fiction setting, an interest in the workings of interpersonal relationships, and speculation about the potentials of the mind and the nature of personality.
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