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The Word Exchange by"Alena Graedon"
A dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange offers an inventive, suspenseful, and decidedly original vision of the dangers of technology and of the enduring power of the printed word. In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted “death of print” has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are things of the past, and we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication but also have become so intuitive that they hail us cabs before we leave our offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange. Anana Johnson works with her father, Doug, at the North American Dictionary of the English Language (NADEL), where Doug is hard at work on the last edition that will ever be printed. Doug is a staunchly anti-Meme, anti-tech intellectual who fondly remembers the days when people used email (everything now is text or videoconference) to communicate—or even actually spoke to one another, for that matter. One evening, Doug disappears from the NADEL offices, leaving a single written clue: ALICE. It’s a code word he devised to signal if he ever fell into harm’s way. And thus begins Anana’s journey down the proverbial rabbit hole . . . Joined by Bart, her bookish NADEL colleague, Anana’s search for Doug will take her into dark basements and subterranean passageways; the stacks and reading rooms of the Mercantile Library; and secret meetings of the underground resistance, the Diachronic Society. As Anana penetrates the mystery of her father’s disappearance and a pandemic of decaying language called “word flu” spreads, The Word Exchange becomes a cautionary tale that is at once a technological thriller and a meditation on the high cultural costs of digital technology. From the Hardcover edition.
The Word Exchange
By:"Alena Graedon"
Published on 2014-04-08 by Anchor
BOOKS ID : oZ6NAQAAQBAJ
Ebook Title : The Word Exchange
ETAG : saHbq00Kan0
ISBN_13 Code : 9780385537667
ISBN_10 Code : 0385537662
Book Print Type : BOOK
Rank : 32 for keyword gambling meme
Book Author :"Alena Graedon"
Publisher : Anchor
Book Pages Count : 384
Print Type : BOOK
Book's Categories :"Fiction"
Books Language : en
Text to Speech Access : ALLOWED_FOR_ACCESSIBILITY
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