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Distraction
a novel
Book • 1998
Distraction depicts a dystopian United States in 2044, with a collapsed economy, rising sea levels, mass unemployment, and a dysfunctional federal government.
The story centers on Oscar Valparaiso, a genetically enhanced political genius and campaign manager, who becomes entangled in a media war involving Louisiana's rogue governor Green Huey, a biotech research park, and networks of nomadic hackers.
Packed with prescient ideas on networked societies, reputation economies, cognition research, and political machinations, the novel features vivid characters and explores themes of attention, power, and social order in an information age.
The story centers on Oscar Valparaiso, a genetically enhanced political genius and campaign manager, who becomes entangled in a media war involving Louisiana's rogue governor Green Huey, a biotech research park, and networks of nomadic hackers.
Packed with prescient ideas on networked societies, reputation economies, cognition research, and political machinations, the novel features vivid characters and explores themes of attention, power, and social order in an information age.
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