{"product_id":"9781597805391","title":"Permutation City: A Novel","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which you’re accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you’d expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife is just electronic code. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting themselves down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an Autoverse addict. She spends every waking minute with the cellular automaton known as the Autoverse, a world that lives by the mathematical “laws of physics.”\u003cbr\u003ePaul makes Maria an offer to design and drop a seed into the Autoverse that will allow her to indulge in her obsession. There is, however, one catch: you can no longer terminate, bail out, and remove yourself. You will never be your normal flesh-and-blood life again. The question then becomes: Is this what she really wants? Is this what we really want?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the brilliant mind of Greg Egan, \u003ci\u003ePermutation City\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or is the Copy of you the real you?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Night Shade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045374345456,"sku":"9781597805391","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781597805391_p0.jpg?v=1763824791","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781597805391","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}