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Capacity

By Tony Ballantyne

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780553589290

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Welcome to the year 2252—and congratulations! You’re now a personality construct. We know that can be a daunting stage of personal development, especially if you don’t remember making this life-changing decision. But we’re here to help….

Helen is waking to a darkContinue

Welcome to the year 2252—and congratulations! You’re now a personality construct. We know that can be a daunting stage of personal development, especially if you don’t remember making this life-changing decision. But we’re here to help….

Helen is waking to a dark new reality—one that she’s certain she didn’t choose. In this borrowed existence, she finds an unexpected guide in Judy, a geisha-faced virgin who’s on a mission of her own. Together, the two of them begin a dangerous run through dozens of imagined worlds in an attempt to trap a psychopath haunting the shadowed areas of virtual space—a killer who brutally murdered an earlier version of Helen and who plans to kill again. Meanwhile, Justinian is investigating a peculiar rash of AI suicides on far-off planets—and finds that not only is there more to these “deaths” than he thought, but that they may be linked to his wife Anya’s mysterious coma.

In a future where AIs have taken over human life and the Environment Agency runs everything for our own good, the fact that we can live on after physical death as sentient digital beings should have been a good thing. Instead, as Helen and Justinian are about to discover, it just means there are more ways to die.

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  • Capacity by Tony Ballantyne

    There are hundreds of Helens in the universe, every one of them the same and every one of them tortured, raped and murdered on a daily basis. This is the problem with being a unique personality construct; you are subject to the morbid fascination of ... (read full critics)

    thebookbag published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

  • Capacity

    Tony Ballantyne's Capacity is a direct sequel to his first novel, Recursion. A third book is planned, Divergence, due in May of this year. That said, the first two books are mostly independent of each other, though clearly set in the same future (and ... (read full critics)

    sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 416 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0553589296
  • ISBN-13: 9780553589290
  • Publisher: Spectra
  • Pub date: Dec 26, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1097 mm x 645 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook
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