Vacuum Flowers (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Swanwick
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cyberpunk
- Time of Work: Several centuries in the future
- Setting: Earth and several space habitats and colonies
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Oppression, Drugs, Personality, Earth
- Locales: Space, Earth
The Plot
Eucrasia Walsh, an expert at “wetware”— altering people’s personalities—tries out a new personality about to be marketed, Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark. She decides that she wants to keep it and flees from the corporation holding her captive in the Eros Kluster. Carrying this valuable persona, Rebel must avoid both the corporation and an agent of the Comprise, the group intelligence that controls all people on Earth.
Rebel locates an old friend, Wyeth, a “tetrad” with four separate personalities that she crafted, and gets a job removing vacuum flowers,...
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