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Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge

2006 · EN

From the back cover: World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by "smart" contact lenses that connect him to the Internet via his clothes and wireless nodes just about everywhere. Buildings look low rent -- unless you're wearing. Then, they look like whatever you want. Even he is different. He's seventy-five, but his treatment has made him look almost a teen. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the new Digital Age. As Gu tries to catch up with his future, a mysterious stranger draws him and other innocents into a conspiracy that could have disastrous consequences. Before he knows it, he's in so deep that even his high-ranking military son and daughter-in-law are clueless. His only hope -- the world's only hope -- is that his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri and her secret friend, Mr. Rabbit, might be able to keep the worst from happening....

Editions · 5

Paperback
2006 · Tor/Tom Doherty Associates
364 pp · EN
9780312856847
Hardback
2006 · Tor Books
368 pp · EN
9780312856847
Paperback
2007 · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
EN
9781429991896
Paperback
2007 · Tor Science Fiction
400 pp · EN
9780812536362
Paperback
2007 · TORSF 1/1/2007 1/1/2007 1/1/20
384 pp · EN
9780330451949

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