Join

328 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2016

ISBN:
9781616956707
OCLC Number:
915120483

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3 stars (1 review)

"What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That's the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its horrors. Chance and Leap are jolted out of their professional routines by a terrifying stranger--a remorseless killer who freely manipulates the networks that regulate life in the post-Join world. Their quest for answers--and survival--brings them from the networks and spire communities they've known to the scarred heart of an environmentally ravaged North American continent and an underground community of the "ferals" left behind by the rush of technology. In the storytelling tradition of classic speculative fiction from writers like David Mitchell and Michael Chabon, Join offers a pulse-pounding story that …

2 editions

I struggled with my opinion on this throughout

3 stars

Content warning Spoilers for halfway through and ending!

Subjects

  • Self-consciousness (Awareness)
  • Humanity
  • Fiction