num_pages: 304
description: Machine Dreams takes place in a future dangerously near, when 150 million people are crammed into an unending cityscape stretching from the Mexican border to San Francisco. It tells the story of Anson Hockney, a gritty urban survivor who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a vast and vicious corporate war over control of a new technology when he accepts a job protecting a young boy. Anson is a classic anti-hero with a twist-- he is possessed of both an eidetic memory and a jarring amnesia. So while he can memorize the schematics of a towering skyscraper over the course of a long evening, he has almost no memory of who he is or where he is from. Somehow Anson has become an empty vessel-- and he wants to know why. The new technology being fought over is unbelievably valuable‹a fusion of bioengineering and digital entertainment that will for the first time allow the recording and broadcast of all human sensations, from the most intimate kiss to death itself. The key to this technology is a secret source code. Someone has stolen it. Several private armies are about to go to war to get it back. Anson is the person carrying the stolen code-- but he doesn't know he has it.
language: English
title: Machine Dreams
titlecomplete: Machine Dreams
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Bald Mountain Books