Necroville by Ian McDonald (.ePUB)
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Necroville by Ian McDonald
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Overview: In the Los Angeles ghetto of Necroville, the yearly celebration of the Night of the Dead – where the dead are resurrected through the miracle of nanotechnology and live their second lives as non-citizens – becomes a journey of discovery and revelation for five individuals on the run from their pasts.
With his customary flair for making the bizarre both credible and fascinating, McDonald tosses aside the line of demarcation between living and dead in a story that confronts the central quandary of human existence: the essence of non-being.
Review: Amazingly prescient!
Necroville is a fantastic and phantasmagoric novel, written in a little bit of a magic realist style, which the author still uses to good effect in later books. Story-wise, it centers on a tipping point in history, essentially one wild night, when people who have downloaded themselves into android bodies, for various reasons, and who had given up their legal human identities to gain this comparative immortality and array of enhanced abilities, now far outnumber regular people and begin to apply pressure to change the cultural balance. To humanify the story the focus is on a group of 5 friends whom events conspire to make key players during this short period. Hard to believe this book was written in 1994, predating so many other pivotal books with similar elements such as The Quiet War, Noir, The Diamond Age, etc. Worth reading just to mine the early strata of that zeitgeist.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy Cyberpunk
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