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Brasyl (Gollancz S.F.)

by Ian McDonald | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0575080507 Global Overview for this book
Registered by newk of Adelaide, South Australia Australia on 9/4/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Tuesday, September 4, 2007
currently reading

Journal Entry 2 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Sunday, September 16, 2007
This book has parts that remind me of, in no particular order, the writings of Neal Stephenson, William Gibson and Peter Hamilton. And throw in a bit of The Matrix movies.
It is vast, covering three different timelines and the setting is in one of the "multiverses", with some of the characters able to travel between these multiverses.
It appears that one of the ramifications of quantam physics is that there could be an almost infinite number of parallel universes. Brasyl takes it a bit further and makes the protagonists part of a multiverse simulation on a quantam computer. At least I think that's what's happening.
Possibly the author has bitten off more than he can chew. Too much Brazialan slang. I had to keep going back and forward to the glossary.
Really nice cover.

Dunc has it now

Journal Entry 3 by katayoun from Tehran, Tehran Iran on Friday, November 9, 2007
thanksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!! it's here and it's HUGE!! :) thanks so much for a lovely book and so much postage! the stamps are perfectly beautiful too, thanks!!!

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