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Quarantine
By (Author) Greg Egan
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
1st April 2008
7th February 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
256
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 32mm
180g
It's late in the 21st century and bioengineering is now so common that people are able to modify their minds in any way they wish. It is an era which has been shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, is easily breached. Now, you can be whatever you want to be and do whatever you want to do. On Earth anyway.
One night, thirty three years ago, the stars went out. 'The Bubble' - a perfect sphere centred on the sun - appeared in the sky, isolating the solar system from the rest of the universe.For thirty-three years, humanity has lived with the religious cults and terrorism which spawned in the wake of the darkness. We are now alone. Humanity has been cut off...Quarantined.Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He has won the John W Campbell award for Best Novel and has been shortlisted for the Hugo three times.
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