Infoshok

Kak daleko mozhno zayti v zhazhde nazhivy? Grandioznoe puteshestvie po okopam tehnologicheskoy voyny, kotoraya vedetsya s pomoschyu demonstratsionnyh obraztsov produktsii, press-relizov i predlozheniy o prodazhah, a platsdarmami sluzhat konferents-zaly korporatsiy dalekogo buduschego. Buduschego, v kotorom znakomye nam tehnologii zaprescheny. Netch - master bio-logiki, programmirovaniya chelovecheskogo tela. On sdelal kareru, ispolzuya lish sobstvennyy um. Zasluzhennaya professionalnaya reputatsiya Netcha privlekaet vnimanie Margaret Surinoy, obladayuschey tainstvennym nou-hau pod nazvaniem Multirealnost. I tolko blagodarya genialnosti Netcha u Margaret poyavitsya shans uberech tehnologiyu ot ruk vysokopostavlennogo Lena Bordy i ego bezzhalostnoy armii. Chtoby spravitsya s pautinoy intrig, chto pletut vragi, Netchu i ego uchenikam pridetsya sovershit nevozmozhnoe. Oni dolzhny razobratsya v etoy strannoy novoy tehnologii, proyti tsikl razrabotki produkta i vypustit ego na rynok - i vse eto za tri korotkih dnya. Tem vremenem nad vsem navisaet prizrak infoshoka - smertelnogo vspleska dannyh, kotoryy mozhet razrushit bio-logicheskie seti i vernut ves mir v Temnye veka. Detalno propisannyy mir, kotoryy fantastichen, kak «Dyuna», i realen, kak segodnyashniy nomer Wall Street Journal. Finalist Memorialnoy premii im. Dzhona V. Kempbella.