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Overview
Dennis Danvers has seen tomorrow - and it's "the Bin": a vast network of silicon crystals into which twelve billion people have uploaded their personalities to live in crime-free, disease-free and deathless virtual societies, leaving the dangerous and unpredictable Earth to a few stragglers, the creeps and the crazies, the religious fundamentalists and the rebels. Outsiders may visit the Bin for short stretches of time. But once they decide to stay...it's forever. Nemo is an outsider. This is his coming-of-age story. And it begins on the occasion of his twenty-first birthday, when he reluctantly pays a visit to the parents who abandoned their flesh and their son for cyber-utopia. Nemo is a righteously angry young man determined to live, age, and die in a bleak, almost deserted earthly hell rather than sacrifice his body and soul to a technological purgatory. Until Nemo meets the perfect woman - a newly arrived resident of the Bin named Justine - a pop singer and beautiful enigma with an unsettling void in her past. And now Nemo the renegade is questioning everything he has ever fought for or against. But the strange dreams that come to Justine in the dark of the virtual night belong to somebody else - and they're leading two innocent young lovers into a dangerous mire of irreversible choice, and into the intricate machinery of devastation.Editorials
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Although I'm rapidly getting tired of novels about virtual reality, Dennis Danvers has some new wrinkles to entertain us in Circuit of Heaven, wherein much of the population has voluntarily abandoned the real world to live exclusively in an electronic microcosm.—Don D'Ammassa
Orlando Sentinel
A haunting novel that will make readers wonder.Washington Post
Earthly and spiritual delights abound. . .DennisDanvers's move to SF is a welcome one.Locus
Danvers isn't exactly a household name inSF circles. . .CIRCUIT OF HEAVEN may change that.Details
A wild ride.NY Times Book Review
"Romeo and Juliet in Cyberspace" might be the subtitle of this moving love story, in which technological barriers threaten to separate an appealing pair of "star-cross'd lovers" as painfully as the more traditional barriers of class and clan.Entertainment Weekly
This provocative novel makes us think, makes us wonder, and makes us want more from this very talented author.Book Details
Published
June 1, 1999
Publisher
Avon Books
Pages
384
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780380790920