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001			ocn915120483
003			OCoLC
005			20190609233639.0
008			151110s2016 nyu e 000 f eng
010			_a 2015037546
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020			_a9781616956707 _qhardcover
020			_a1616956704 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)915120483
042			_apcc
092			_aToutongh _bSteve
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aToutonghi, Steve, _d1964- _eauthor. _9302211
245	1	0	_aJoin / _cSteve Toutonghi.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bSoho Press, _c[2016]
300			_a328 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That's the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its horrors. Chance and Leap are jolted out of their professional routines by a terrifying stranger--a remorseless killer who freely manipulates the networks that regulate life in the post-Join world. Their quest for answers--and survival--brings them from the networks and spire communities they've known to the scarred heart of an environmentally ravaged North American continent and an underground community of the "ferals" left behind by the rush of technology. In the storytelling tradition of classic speculative fiction from writers like David Mitchell and Michael Chabon, Join offers a pulse-pounding story that poses the largest possible questions: How long can human life be sustained on our planet in the face of environmental catastrophe? What does it mean to be human, and what happens when humanity takes the next step in its evolution? If the individual mind becomes obsolete, what have we lost and gained, and what is still worth fighting for?"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSelf-consciousness (Awareness) _vFiction. _9302212
650		0	_aHumanity _vFiction. _9160101
655		7	_aScience fiction. _2lcgft _9853
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