Rabbit, the New Sunrise Cult and YGBM are pretty interesting ideas. Some of the other stuff, though, including some of the plot setup, is somewhat implausible or silly. He fleshes out the fantasy very well, and probably isn't too far off the mark. I've fantasized of sending 'silent messages' and looking out through other peoples' eyes and ears since the 6th grade. Very much like how I imagine them myself. I really like the way he describes the wearable computer interfaces. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak.Overall, it had some really great ideas, but was somewhat disappointing compared to his other books. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot.

In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert's son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination.

But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless accessâ€”through nodes designed into smart clothesâ€”and to see the digital contextâ€”through smart contact lenses. Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it.

The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025.Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky.

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