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Alexander Besher

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Rim
Year 1994
Publisher Orbit
ISBN 1857233328
 

 

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Rim - A novel of virtual reality

It's 2027.  Tokyo has survived the Mega-Quake of the Millennium and Satori Corporation, the owner of a virtual reality entertainment empire, is embroiled in cut-throat corporate warfare to preserve its market share, and, incidentally, save the lives of thousands of users trapped inside its virtual worlds.

All of this seems far away to Professor Frank Gobi as he strolls across the placid university campus in California - until he gets home to find his perpetually on-line ten-year-old son stuck inside Satori's Gametime and literally fighting for his life.

Forget word processing.  This is the world of consciousness processing and downloaded human psyches.  A world that Professor Frank Gobi has to enter if he is to save the life of his ten-year-old son ...

 

 

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'Alexander Besher does more than simply carry on from where Neuromancer and Bladerunner left off.  Rim amounts to a categorical upscaling of this genre onto previously uncharted turf.'
Douglas Rushkoff

'We find Alexander Besher's vision of the integrations of technology and daily life not only entertaining but increasingly likely'
Kunio Toshima, Editor in Chief, MacPower Magazine

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A Crescent Earth at Midnight

 

 

Credit: NASA

A Crescent Earth at Midnight
The Earth's northern hemisphere is outlined as a sunlit crescent in this dramatic view from orbit, recorded near local midnight by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8) on June 22, 1996. That date was two days after the Solstice, by astronomical reckoning, the first day of summer in the north and winter in the southern hemisphere. Today's scheduled geocentric astronomical event is again the northern hemisphere's summer Solstice, with the Sun reaching its northernmost declination at 19 hours 10 minutes Universal Time. That makes today also the longest day of the year in the north, with the arctic regions near the top of the picture experiencing 24 hours of daylight. Looking south along the Earth's limb, atmospheric scattering of sunlight causes the limb to be visible beyond areas directly illuminated by the sun. Credit: GOES Project, GSFC, NASA

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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