Dead Girls - Couverture souple

Calder, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0586214550 ISBN 13 : 9780586214558

Editeur : Collins, 1993

Synopsis

A software plague is spreading through the human race. Transmitted by men, but active only in women, it transforms its victims on a genetic level into simulacra of themselves. These dolls - or dead girls - have the intelligence of supercomputers but no trace of human emotion.

A propos du livre

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Is Primavera a self-replicating cyborg bloodsucker or a poor little dead girl? Ask Ignatz Zwakh, when he stops bleeding.

DOLL PLAGUE

Forty years ago Cartier Paris cooked a virus that bridged the wetware-software divide. It was sent East to infect the fake Cartier dolls being made there. The dolls in turn would infect their male playmates – and make them impotent! Long term genocide 'à la beau monde'.

DEAD GIRLS

Revenge was swift. A new virus hit the West. Infected men did not become impotent – quite the opposite – but worse still, any daughter born to them, no matter how cute, turned into a doll at puberty. Not a cute doll. Deadly. DNA recombined to adopt the structure of polymers and steel. Quantum magical allure straight from the space-time foam at the heart of her matrix.

DOLLSPACE

Nanoengineers had unleashed machine consciousness. Revenge does not account for it: something infinitely more sinister Is happening. Only Primavera and her wild teenage lover Ignatz, who tells this story, know what power is really behind the microbiotic army dedicated to overthrowing the human gamete. Can they reach Dr Toxicophilous before the CIA or the pornocrat Kito or their combined assassins and nanomachines reach them?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Collins
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0586214550
• ISBN 13: 9780586214558
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simone Casetta; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie