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Author
Index
C |
Pat
Cadigan |
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Title
Index
S |
Synners |
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| Year |
1991 |
| Publisher |
Grafton
(Bantam Doubleday
Dell) |
| ISBN |
0586211470 |
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Synopsis
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Synners
are synthesizers -
not machines, but
real people.
They take images
from the brains of
performers and
turn them into a
form which can be
packaged, sold and
consumed. Of
course, some
images are more
sought after than
others ...
Synners plunges
us into a
fast-moving,
high-tech future -
exotic, exciting
and very
dangerous.
It's a world where
new technology
spawns new crime
even before it
hits the
streets. A
world where
computer viruses
appear all but
human. A
world where new
drugs are the
order of the day -
every day. A
world where the
human mind and the
external landscape
have fused to the
point that reality
is constantly
being moulded,
destroyed then
re-created.
And the greatest
reality
manipulators of
them all are the
synners ... |
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Review
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'All
Pat Cadigan's work
is typified by a
hard-bitten but
evocative prose,
an understanding
of the bleaker
side of the human
psyche, and an
undergirding
compassion'
Michael Bishop
'Ambitious,
brilliantly
executed ..
Pat Cadigan is a
major talent'
William Gibson |
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Credit:
NASA
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Anybody
Need a
Lift?
Pilot
Bill Dana
looks up
as the
B-52
"mothership"
cruises
over
NASA's
HL-10
"lifting
body"
on Muroc
Dry Lake,
California,
in 1969.
Lifting
bodies
were
wingless
vehicles
that flew
because of
the lift
generated
by the
aircraft's
body. The
research
proved
that
future
spacecraft
could land
like an
airplane,
helping to
pave the
way for
the
development
of the
Space
Shuttle. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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