Spin State
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Spin State
By (Author) Chris Moriarty
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Spectra
15th December 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
FIC
Nominated for Philip K. Dick Award.
Physical Properties
Paperback
640
Width 105mm, Height 175mm, Spine 27mm
295g
Description
From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one womans quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware. . . .
UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetimeand has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But thats what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; shes been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compsons World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of the powers that be. A dead physicist who just happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining accident that is starting to look more and more like murder. . . .
Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an AI could literally blow her mind.
Reviews
Vivid, sexy, and sharply written . . . a nonstop, white-knuckle tour of quantum physics, artificial intelligence, and the human heart.Nicola Griffith
A spiky, detailed, convincing, compelling page-turner, and the science is good too. Chris Moriarty is a dangerous talent.Stephen Baxter
Action, mystery and drama, set against some of the most plausible speculative physics Ive seen.David Brin
Highly atmospheric . . . a hefty far-future exploration of AI, human cloning, class conflict and plain old-fashioned murder.Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Chris Moriarty was born in 1968 and has lived in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America. A resident of Utah since 1994, Chris has trained horses for cattle ranches and hunting operations, and worked as a ranch hand, backcountry guide, freelance editor and environmental lawyer.
