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The candy house [text (large print)]

Egan, Jennifer2023

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Bix Bouton is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalising' memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, 'Own Your Unconscious' - that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others - has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are 'counters' who track and exploit desires and there are 'eluders', who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House.