Merchant of Souls
by John Barnes
Book # 000364 - Price $7.99 US
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Hardcover book is in new, never been read condition.
Dust jacket is in like new condition. Minor wear on top front edges of dust
jacket. Inside of book pages are crisp and clean, no stains. Publisher: Tor
Books. 400 pages long. 2001 edition. Approx: 9 by 6 by 1 1/2. ISBN#
0312890761. Additional pictures of condition are always available.
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Mysterious forces threaten humanity in this relatively
weak third installment in Barnes's Thousand Cultures series (after 1998's
Earth Made of Glass). Once again, composer Giraut Leones, secret agent for
the intergalactic Office of Special Projects, is in the thick of things. In
the Thousand Cultures, people periodically record the contents of their
minds on a device called a psypyx. When they die, their psypyx is stored
until someone is willing to share their brain with the deceased. After two
years, the dead person's mind is reanimated in a cloned body. Unfortunately,
on Earth, where most people inhabit virtual reality simulations, someone has
the idea of converting these stored personalities into what are essentially
computer games that would force helpless, disembodied humans to be other
people's playthings. Most citizens of the Thousand Cultures react to this
proposal with horror. Though still recovering from a painful divorce, Giraut
volunteers to carry the mind of a dead friend to Earth, and help lead a
campaign to turn public opinion against the monstrous idea.
When the pleasure-seeking inhabitants of Earth attempt to download
recordings of the personalities of deceased individuals for recreational
purposes, the Office of Special Projects enlists its best agents, Giraut and
Margaret Leones, to stop the process. Recently divorced and unsure of their
relationship, they find themselves at the center of a controversial web of
political and galactic intrigue that threatens the future of humanity
throughout the universe. Returning to the far-future world of A Million Open
Doors and Earth Made of Glass, Barnes elaborates on his vision of a
multicultural universe filled with diverse and often conflicting societies.
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