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Slant Mass market paperback - 1998

by Bear, Greg

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New York: Tor Books, 1998. Reprint edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/Wraps. 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches. A very good pocket-size paperback with lightly rubbed covers. This book is clean, tight, unmarked. Padded envelopes are used to protect the book. ... Paper . ISBN: 0812524829. Catalogs: Literature and Fiction.
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  • Title Slant
  • Author Bear, Greg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 505
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tor Books, New York
  • Publication date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 19920
  • ISBN 9780812524826 / 0812524829
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.74 x 4.24 x 1.14 in (17.12 x 10.77 x 2.90 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Twenty-first century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97007063
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence.

It's a sane and perfect world. Almost.

A man called Jack Giffey is planning to break into the Omphalos, the most secure building in all of separatist Green Idaho. Rumor says that the Omphalos houses the not-quite-dead, the very wealthy deceased who are still alive, their brains connected directly into Thinkers, Artificial Intelligences that provide a virtual reality. Data is the great treasure of the new millennium, and Giffey plans to tap into the Omphalos datastream, to steal the knowledge gathered by the inhabitants of the Omphalos.
In the offices of Mind Design, Inc., the most advanced Artificial Intelligence in the world has had a unique experience. She has received a request for contact from a new AI, one she does not know and did not help to design. Jill has never met a stranger of her own kind before; is it an alien Thinker, or the offspring of some vast conspiracy?

Slant is set in Bear's Queen of Angels universe, and is one of the great science fiction novels of the 1990s.

About the author

Greg Bear sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction. Since then, he has written some twenty novels, including Eon, Slant, and Moving Mars. A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Bear is married to Astrid Anderson, and they, and their two children, live near Seattle, Washington.

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