{"product_id":"dark-constellations-by-pola-oloixarac-9781641291309","title":"Dark Constellations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark Constellations\u003c\/em\u003e by Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac is a visionary novel that races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future. It explores humanity's quest for knowledge and control, while leaping forward to the next steps in human evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCanary Islands, 1882—Caught in the 19th-century mania for scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires, 1983—Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet and becomes a prominent hacker. He rides the wave of transformations brought about by distributed networks, mass surveillance, and new flows of globalized capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024—A research group works on a project that will allow the Ministry of Genetics to track every movement of the country's citizens without their knowledge or consent, using sensors that identify DNA at a distance. Yet, the new technology contains within it the seeds of a far more radical transformation of human life and civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac's complexly intertwining stories reveal the power that resides in the world's most deeply shadowed spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46546842091756,"sku":"9781641291309","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9903213482772.jpg?v=1749851777","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/dark-constellations-by-pola-oloixarac-9781641291309","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}