JRMM00-34 Justina Robson - Mappa Mundi.nfo
General Information
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Title: Mappa Mundi
Author: Justina Robson
Read By: Ruth Urquhart
Copyright: 2001
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Sci-Fi
Publisher: Audible
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Number: Chapterized - lossless
Source: Audible Enhanced
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 34
Total Duration: 15:56:04
Total MP3 Size: 438.05
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Ripped With: SoundTaxi
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
The map of everything you know, everything you are, everything you ever
will be...just got rewritten. A novel of hard SF exploring the nature
of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britain's most
acclaimed new talents.
In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it possible
to map a model of the living human brain, radical psychologist Natalie
Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a cutting-edge military
project for creating comprehensive mind-control.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Jude Westhorpe, FBI specialist,
is tracking a cold war defector long involved in everything from gene
sequencing to mind-mapping. But his investigation has begun to affect
matters of national security - throwing Jude and Natalie together as
partners in trouble - deep trouble from every direction. This fascinating
novel explores the nature of humanity in the near future, when the power
and potential of developing technologies demand that we adapt ourselves
to their existence - whatever the price.
What the Critics Say
"Silver Screen and Mappa Mundi showed intelligence, grace and a lively
but humane imagination. Robson's considerable sense of humour lay in
ambush, backed up by a postfeminist tendency to look the problem straight
in the eye. Combined with a clean, powerful narrative drive and a cosmological
sensibility, this clarity of vision now demonstrates itself as her major
asset, making her one of the very best of the new British hard SF writers.
But it proves her identity too, moving her on, like the Forged themselves,
into a space of her own choosing." (Guardian)
"...maintains throat-tightening suspense from its teasingly enigmatic
introduction of its major characters to its painful conclusion that
evil will succeed if well-meaning people try to achieve good at any
cost... Shortlisted for the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award, this near-future
SF thriller presents convincing characters caught in profound moral
dilemmas brought home through exquisite attention to plot details and
setting." (Publishers Weekly)
"Rich and varied and at times exhilarating" (Daughters of Prometheus)-
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