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Permutation City
St Leonards
:
Allen and Unwin
,
1994
Z455855
1994
single work
novel
science fiction
(taught in 2 units)
'In
Permutation City
Egan has said that his main goal was "to
take the idea of conscious software - whether it's some kind
of scanned human duplicate, or some AI created from
scratch - and push it to its logical conclusion'." The story involves human identities being 'loaded into computer memory
banks where they become virtual people' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
La cite des permutants Paris : Laffont , 1996
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