Shards of a holographic rose

The action takes place at the beginning of the XXI century in America, which survived the turbulent nineties, which led to separatism , devastation and poverty. From an illegal rebel, the main character became the director of a new type of broadcasting - ASP (APPARENT SENSORY PERCEPTION - almost accurate digitized sensory sensations of all senses recorded on the magnetic tape of a portable player’s cassette).

The protagonist, 30-year-old Parker, recently broke up with his beloved. Suffering from insomnia, he loses the cassette with the yogi, despite the brown-out (lowering voltage due to network congestion). In the morning, he takes out and plays the partially erased cassette of this woman, thinking that people look like fragments of a hologram destroyed by him in a utilizer, in which you can see the same image from different angles of view.

In the story, a blond young yogi with a visual acuity of 2.0–2.2 recorded on the cassette the sensations of performing the pose of Ardha Matsyendrasan (half the pose of Matsyendra, the king of fish, or twisting the spine), but the protagonist did not utter this name in its entirety.

Gibson described cities in which there were many buildings made in the style of Richard Buckminster Fuller (American architect, designer, engineer and inventor. He made a large number of inventions, mainly in the field of design and architecture, the most famous of which is lightweight and durable " geodesic dome "- spatial steel structure from straight rods).