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From the back cover: World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by "smart" contact lenses that connect him to the Internet via his clothes and wireless nodes just about everywhere. Buildings look low rent -- unless you're wearing. Then, they look like whatever you want. Even he is different. He's seventy-five, but his treatment has made him look almost a teen. And that's…
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9 editions · 3 languages- Paperback · English · 2007St. Martins Press-3PL · 402 pages · 9781250841506
- Paperback · English · 2007Tor Science Fiction · 400 pages · 9780812536362
- Hardcover · English · 2006Tor Books · 368 pages · 9780312856847
- Other · English · 2007TORSF 1/1/2007 1/1/2007 1/1/20 · 384 pages · 9780330451949
- Other · English · 2007Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · 9781429991896
- Hardcover · Chinese · 2016彩虹尽头四川科学技术出版社 · 9787536481695
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