The Silicon Man

Charles Platt

Science Fiction

John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee 1992, Prometheus Award nominee 1992.

What would it be like to upload your consciousness into cyberspace? An FBI agent finds out when he uncovers a clandestine project to create a silicon universe. His fight to survice among simulated personalities called infomorphs is a metaphor for the struggle to adapt to life in an electronically-mediated society.

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1991
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Charles Platt

Charles Platt (born 1945) is the author of 41 fiction and nonfiction books, including science-fiction novels such as The Silicon Man and Protektor (published in paperback by Avon Books). He has also written non-fiction, particularly on the subjects of computer technology and cryonics, as well as teaching and working in these fields. Platt relocated from England to the United States in 1970 and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He has one daughter, Rose Fox. He is the nephew of Robert, Baron Platt, of Grindleford.