Central Station / Lavie Tidhar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tidhar, Lavie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy fiction.

Mars (Planet)--Fiction.

Mars (Planet).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2016.

San Francisco : Tachyon Publications, [2016]

Summary:

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris' ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik--a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return. Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation--a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness--are just the beginning of irrevocable change. At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive ... and even evolve.

Contents:

Start.

Notes:

World Fantasy Award winner.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781616962159

1616962151

9781616962173

1616962178

OCLC:

1136961583