# Zendegi

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- Book: [Zendegi](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-egan/zendegi) ([Zendegi.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-egan/zendegi.md))
- Authors: [Greg Egan](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-egan)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7508-621-0
- Published: 2010-06-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people. Fifteen years later, a revived Connectome Project has published a map of the brain. Zendegi is facing fierce competition from its rivals, and Nasim decides to exploit the map to fill the virtual world with better Proxies: the bit-players that bring its crowd scenes to life. As controversy rages over the nature and rights of the Proxies, a friend with terminal cancer begs Nasim to make a Proxy of him, so some part of him will survive to help raise his orphaned son. But Zendegi is about to become a battlefield ...