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First UK trade (large size : 152mm x 230mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition. Unread condition. Comes complete with the publisher’s publicity handout. Nasim is a young computer scientist hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project : a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people. Fifteen years later, a revived Connectome Project has published a map of the brain. Zendegi is facing fierce competition from its rivals and Nasim decides to exploit the map to fill the world with better Proxies : the bit players that bring the crowd scenes to life. As controversy rages over the nature and rights of the Proxies, a friend with terminal cancer begs Nasim to make a Proxy of him so some part of him will survive to help raise his orphaned son. But Zendegi is about to become a battlefield . . .” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH