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Rainbows EndVernor Vinge

Rainbows End

2006384 pages
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9 editions · 3 languages
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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 · 2007
    St. Martins Press-3PL · 402 pages · 9781250841506
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Tor Science Fiction · 400 pages · 9780812536362
  • Hardcover · English · 2006
    Tor Books · 368 pages · 9780312856847
  • Other · English · 2007
    TORSF 1/1/2007 1/1/2007 1/1/20 · 384 pages · 9780330451949
  • Other · English · 2007
    Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · 9781429991896
  • Hardcover · Chinese · 2016
    彩虹尽头
    四川科学技术出版社 · 9787536481695
MemoryFictionHugo Award WinnerAlzheimerAlzheimer's diseaseLong Now Manual for CivilizationFiction, science fiction, generalSan diego (calif.), fiction