Series: Misc
Genre: SF
Publisher: Macmillan
Reader Rating: 2 out of 10
Votes: 2
Genre: SF
Publisher: Macmillan
Reader Rating: 2 out of 10
Votes: 2
Description: Winner of the Amazon.co.uk Busary Award 2000. Due out in October 2001 from Macmillan.
Mappa Mundi is a near future thriller, set so close to our own world that, with a few technological exceptions, it is the same place.
The key conceit of Mappa Mundi is the development of a nanotechnology which is capable of switching nerve cells on and off within the human nervous system, including the brain. By controlling the information across the whole nervous network, the technology can theoretically control everything about the person involved, from their identity to their endocrine reactions. The struggle for control of this technology forms the larger plot sweep of the story.
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