![]() By "interfacing," many individuals may share and interact within a common virtual reality. This is the 21st century world Jack inhabits, and his specialty, cryptography, means that he has had many opportunities to help those in power to stay there, participating in many financially rewarding but legally questionable projects.īut the world possesses another important attribute, "bubble" virtual technology, whereby implanted hardware circuits intimately entwine those of the living brain and interact with surrounding computer circuits (the bubble) to generate coherent, meaningful illusions that encompass the full human sensorium. Cities, not countries, are the political centers, and corporations, not governments, wield power ruthlessly to their own advantage. The economic system polarizes society into an elite at the top and wage slaves at the bottom - the rule is survival of the fittest few. The parts of the Old world that persevered into the New were mostly the bad bits. Nylund's novel Signal to Noise is anything but tame. But Jack fought his way up and out so that we meet him as he battles a rival academic for tenure at an elite university. (For example, the West Coast was submerged, and all that remained of Mexico was a chain of volcanic islands.) From this cataclysm a new civilization emerged, into whose mean streets Jack was born. ![]() ![]() Twenty years before his birth, vast geological disturbances left the surface topography of the world completely altered. ![]()
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