Nov 12, 2009
On a far-future Earth, virtual reality is predominant. It is easy for people to have their memories stored and to have multiple “lives.” Count Alandre Sessine VII is an aristocrat among the Cryptographers, who for decades have been at war with the rival Engineers. Both sides feel helpless in the path of the coming Encroachment, in which Earth and the solar system will be destroyed. Dissidents among the Cryptographers suspect that their corrupt king and his central clique have some knowledge of how to escape the calamity, which they so far lack.
Sessine has...
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