![]() ![]() And that, plotwise, is about it: We're watching people we don't care about do unsurprising and unedifying things amid interminable pages of chat. She ends up in Prague, there plunging into a bohemian whirl of sex, philosophers, designer drugs, artists, cliques, programmers, immortals, and young aspirants. But the new Mia also has a rebuilt brain and, calling herself Maya, rips off the medical monitors her doctors have emplaced in order to evaluate her treatment, and disappears. She decides to undergo a dramatic new rejuvenation that will turn her into a beautiful 20-year-old woman. Ninety-year-old medical economist Mia Ziemann attends the death of a former lover who bequeaths her a virtual-reality palazzo and a talking dog named Plato, whom Mia rejects. ``Post-humans''-ancient people rejuvenated by advanced techniques-pretty much run things religious inspiration has been reduced to the effects of specific drugs and it's illegal to feed vegetables to kids-in California anyway. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cyberpunk guru Sterling's latest (Heavy Weather, 1994, etc.) is set in a 2095 whose pervasive but light-handed government allows everyone to do mostly as he or she pleases-food, shelter, education, health, and transportation are free-although we're given no indication of how this situation came to be, or how it all works. ![]()
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