Unfortunately Academia's facade of civility is dangerously cracked with a seething maelstrom of plotting, assassination attempts, and rebellion and Worth is dragged down into the nightmare. There, a young South African physicist, Violet Mosala, is expected to unveil her candidate for a Theory of Everything.īut the assignment is not the tropical respite Worth was expecting. Burnt out after completing a documentary on controversial developments in biotechnology, he turns down a chance to report on a baffling new mental disorder known as Distress and instead takes an assignment covering the Einstein Centenary Conference on the artificial island of Stateless. "The illusion of empathy" has been dispensed with, and a few idealistic souls try to create a Utopia with pirated technology.īut a wired journalist, Andrew Worth, doesn't want any part of the pop-'Frankenscience' regularly dished out to the masses. It is the year 2055 and the battle of the sexes has seven combatants rather than two.
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