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XX - A Novel, Graphic (Paperback)
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XX - A Novel, Graphic (Paperback)
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'Extraordinary imagination . . . As the book races towards a
mindboggling climax it leads the reader to some remarkable ideas
about the nature of life, the universe and everything. Simply
stunning.' - Big Issue At Jodrell Bank a mysterious signal of
extraterrestrial origin has been detected. Artificial intelligence
expert Jack Fenwick thinks he can decode it. But when he and his
associates at Hoxton tech startup Intelligencia find a way to step
into the alien realm the signal encodes, they discover that it's
already occupied - by ghostly entities that may come from our own
past. Have these 'DMEn' (Digital Memetic Entities) been created by
persons unknown for just such an eventuality? Are they our first
line of defence in a coming war, not for territory, but for our
minds? XX presents a compelling vision of humanity's unique place
in the universe, and of what might happen in the wake of the
biggest scientific discovery in human history. As compelling as it
is visually striking, Rian Hughes' first novel incorporates NASA
transcripts, newspaper and magazine articles, fictitious Wikipedia
pages, undeciphered alphabets, and 'Ascension', a forgotten
novelette by 1960s counterculture guru Herschel Teague that
mysteriously foreshadows events. Wrapping stories within stories,
Rian Hughes' XX unleashes the full narrative potential of graphic
design. Drawing on Dada, punk and the modernist movements of the
twentieth century, it asks us who we think we are - and where we
may be headed next. The battle for your mind has already begun.
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