Every Version of You
ISBN-13: 9780857309150
Author(s): Grace Chan
Subjects: FA, FBA
Publisher: Verve Books
Publisher Imprint: Verve Books
Publication Date: 22-05-2025
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£10.99
About the book
In late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia. When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future or an authentic past.