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It is many years since the human race gave up its individuality. Our world is now a place of technicolour, mechanical beauty. Iridescent domes sit upon the ruins of the previous civilization, and small figures wander constantly between them – dancing, singing, running, but never touching. Each of us is immersed in our own virtual reality. We are like children, living in a perpetual summer: ageless, beautiful, and utterly reliant on the lost knowledge of another age. For decades, nothing disturbed our peaceful equilibrium. Until Fred arrived. Until he took one of us from among from us and made her different. Until he showed us what our world was made of...

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2121: A Tale from the Next Century

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      Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 16 January 2014
      ISBN-13 9781908800992
      978-1908800992
      ISBN-10 1908800992
      Also in:
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi

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      Book Synopsis
      It is many years since the human race gave up its individuality. Our world is now a place of technicolour, mechanical beauty. Iridescent domes sit upon the ruins of the previous civilization, and small figures wander constantly between them – dancing, singing, running, but never touching. Each of us is immersed in our own virtual reality. We are like children, living in a perpetual summer: ageless, beautiful, and utterly reliant on the lost knowledge of another age. For decades, nothing disturbed our peaceful equilibrium. Until Fred arrived. Until he took one of us from among from us and made her different. Until he showed us what our world was made of...

      Trade Review
      Challenging, original, readable and personal -- Oliver Sacks
      Susan Greenfield enthrals and intrigues in equal measure. A force of intellect and a force of nature. -- John Humphrys

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