DESCRIPTION : In late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi\’s mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia. When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future or an authentic past. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9780857309150 BY (AUTHOR) Chan, Grace PUBLISHER : Verve Books PUBLICATION DATE : May 22, 2025 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Verve Books LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items