Description
After surviving a devastating interstellar conflict, a fugitive posthuman with a damaged memory volunteers for an experimental rehabilitation program hidden from the wider galaxy. Inside an isolated habitat modeled on an idealized 20th-century society, the subject assumes a new identity and confronts rigid social roles, buried trauma, and unsettling questions about what makes a person authentic. As the experiment’s carefully controlled world begins to fracture, the story becomes a tense exploration of gender, memory, surveillance, free will, and the possibilities—and dangers—of radical technological transformation. Combining inventive science fiction with psychological suspense and sharp social commentary, the novel challenges assumptions about identity and the systems that shape it.
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paperback
Heyne Verlag
Published Dec 3, 2007
494 pages
ISBN: 9783453523609
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Details
First Published
2006
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Glasshouse by Charles Stross.