The novel is a kind of technological thriller, set in the universe of the short story Fast Times at Fairmont High, Expanded. We are in 2025 and the computerization of the newspaper has made great strides. Every man or woman is constantly connected to the global network, wearing clothes that incorporate computer and all computer accessories and reality overlap customizable virtual representations, inspired by books or films, whose supporters are organized in circles of faith.
Immediate access and potentially unlimited ensure that every person is saturated with information, it is now impossible to keep secret an event or an idea, we resort to the systematic disinformation. Meetings or trips are made by people while offline, if there are third parties, can communicate secretly with each other through private messages with words that take magically to life before the eyes of each.
In a world dominated by the major powers (U.S., China, Japan, Indo Alliance European Union) lurk the ghosts of terrorism, facilitated by the widespread diffusion of sophisticated technologies that can quickly bring down entire areas of the planet.
The novel's protagonist is a survivor of the old world, a poet who returns to live with a new miracle cure for Alzheimer's, but having lost his greatest gift: the ability to create poetry. The desperate need to regain what he lost him into an adventure from the broader scope than he could ever imagine and that will leave at the end still lacking, perhaps, of his old gift, but happier and more adapted to the new world around him .
Overall this is a good work, especially good Vinge for the skill with which he paints the world of the future, and hyper iperinformatizzato. However, the quick conclusion that, in a growing pathos, all the cards magically come to a head, can leave the reader confused with several questions remaining unanswered.
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