It's a sane and perfect world. Almost.
A man called Jack Giffey is planning to break into the Omphalos, the most secure building in all of the separatist Green Idaho. Rumor says that the Omphalos houses the not-quite-dead -- the very wealthy deceased who are still alive, their brains connected directly into Thinkers. Data is the great treasure of the new millennium, and Giffey plans to tap into the Omphalos dataflow, to steal the knowledge gathered by the inhabitants of the Omphalos.
Public Defender Mary Choy, now living in Seattle, has been called in on the bizarre suicide (or murder) of a wealthy, secretive man. His last recordings hint at some terrible guilty secret. Choy would very much like to know what such a man -- rich and politically powerful -- might have done that he could no longer live with.
And in the offices of Mind Design, Inc., Jill, the most advanced artificial intelligence in the world has had a unique experience. She has received a request for contact from a new AI, one she does not know and did not help to design. Jill has never met a stranger of her own kind before; is it an alien Thinker of the offspring of some vast conspiracy?
Slant is the thought-provoking new novel from one of the modern masters of science fiction.
1998 John W. Campbell nominee, best novel
1998 Locus Poll Award nominee, best SF novel
"Each new novel only serves to illustrate how masterful Bear has become." THE HOUSTON POST
"No one spins out ideas like Greg Bear. He explores
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You'll need a Palm OS or PocketPC/Windows CE Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a Windows or Macintosh desktop (or laptop) PC.
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The Palm Reader can read doc files. A doc file is a type of PDA file that ends in either .pdb or .prc. These text files have been specifically packaged for use on a PDA. Doc format is pretty much a standard for PDA documents, and the latest version of the Palm Reader can view them.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs: Hewlett-Packard Jornada420, 430, 430se, 540, 545, 547, 548, 680, 690, 720, and 820 CompaqiPAQ H3600 series, iPAQ H3100 series and Aero 1500 series CasioCassiopeia E115, E-125 and EM-500 series.
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