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By Alena Graedon
A dystopian novel for the electronic age, The observe alternate deals a creative, suspenseful, and decidedly unique imaginative and prescient of the hazards of expertise and of the iconic energy of the published word.
In the not-so-distant destiny, the forecasted "death of print" has develop into a truth. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are issues of the prior, and we spend our time glued to hand-held units referred to as Memes that not just hold us in consistent conversation but in addition became so intuitive that they hail us cabs earlier than we go away our workplaces, order takeout on the first growl of a hungry belly, or even create and promote language itself in a market referred to as the be aware Exchange.
Anana Johnson works together with her father, Doug, on the North American Dictionary of the English Language (NADEL), the place Doug is difficult at paintings at the final version that would ever be published. Doug is a staunchly anti-Meme, anti-tech highbrow who fondly recalls the times whilst humans used electronic mail (everything now's textual content or videoconference) to communicate--or even truly spoke to each other, for that subject. One night, Doug disappears from the NADEL workplaces, leaving a unmarried written clue: ALICE. It's a code notice he devised to sign if he ever fell into harm's method. And therefore starts off Anana's trip down the proverbial rabbit gap . . .
Joined by means of Bart, her bookish NADEL colleague, Anana's look for Doug will take her into darkish basements and subterranean passageways; the stacks and analyzing rooms of the Mercantile Library; and mystery conferences of the underground resistance, the Diachronic Society. As Anana penetrates the secret of her father's disappearance and a scourge of decaying language known as "word flu" spreads, The be aware trade turns into a cautionary story that's without delay a technological mystery and a meditation at the excessive cultural expenses of electronic technology.
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