Silicon Karma (Paperback)

by Thomas A. Easton (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: White Wolf Pub (February 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565048180
ISBN-13: 978-1565048188
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 341 g

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Is it heaven or is it hell? It's Silicon Karma, a virtual reality world where a person can live forever. When Rose Pillock moves into the machine, she is once more in the arms of her late husband and in a world peopled by familiar faces. Can she stop a conniving enemy before the world of Silicon Karma is in ruins?.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid hard-sf set in an electronic afterlife. His best yet., Nov 10 2003

By	Peter D. Tillman (Taos, NM USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"Silicon Karma" is Tom Easton's take on what happens when people can
live inside a computer. The time is the fairly near-future. A non-
destructive brain scan has been commercialized. Wealthy people can
achieve electronic immortality of a sort in a number of competing
"heavens". The eworld of "Silicon Karma" is, by choice, close to upper-
middle class norms outside. A new citizen of "Virtual City" (clunk) gets
the basics of elife with his price of admission, but luxuries must be
earned - or stolen.

Albert Pillock is a retired cop. He's been recruited by the AI that runs
Virtual City to track down mysterious drains on its resources and
missing persons, and is promptly killed. Fortunately, he'd backed up
three days earlier. It doesn't take Albert long to find Lisa, a sexy predator
who taps her lovers' accounts & sucks them dry. But the host computer
has strong civil rights written into its basic code. And Lisa has an outside
line to a disgruntled employee of the parent company...

"Silicon Karma" moves right along. Characters and dialog ring true
(barring the odd clunk) but it's basically a novel of ideas. Good ideas,
well-thought-out ideas, a steady stream of ideas. Easton works out the
details of daily life inside a host computer, including competition (fair
& foul) for the limited resources of the host. Artificial-life ecologies are a
hot topic in computational science, and Easton's biology background
allows some fresh insights.

Dr. Easton, a biology professor at Thomas College in Maine, is Analog's
long-time book reviewer. His previous "Organic Future" novels were
interesting but (IMO) marred by implausibilities and excessive cuteness
(eg "roachsters" for cars). "Silicon Karma" is a step up for Easton as a
novelist, and I hope he returns to this future.

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