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Heppner, Mike

 
9780375412905: The Egg Code: A Novel

Sinopsis

The Gloria 21169, a powerful computer hidden away in a small midwestern town and designed to carry information from around the world on the Internet, somehow manages to seize control of the entire network, redirecting every signal through its database.

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Mike Heppner grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, received an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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hing scope, flair and originality, Mike Heppner’s debut explores our secret lives and most desperate impulses even as they are penetrated by a global web of mysterious provenance and dubious promise.<br><br>Few who live in Big Dipper Township have even heard about anything called the Egg Code; they’re busy enough as it is. At one end of this tiny Midwestern community, a motivational speaker starts choking on his own words, while at another, an impressionable dancer struggles to realize her recurrent dreams of flying. An estranged wife becomes a counterfeit folklorist, while an aging typographer is besieged by regret. And―in one household―a “living arrangements” salesman is harried to the verge of losing his livelihood, while his wife stage-mothers their talentless son and eventually decides to take destiny into her own hands.<br><br>Also nearby, however, is a lone hacker bent on destroying the demon among them all: a router, the Gloria 21169, that, along

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9780375727252: The Egg Code (Vintage Contemporaries)

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ISBN 10:  0375727256 ISBN 13:  9780375727252
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003
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