"In the Canary Islands in 1882, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches a species that can allegedly eliminate the psychic limits between two human minds. In 1980s Buenos Aires, Cassio comes of age with the Internet and becomes a prominent hacker, riding the wave of transformations brought about by distributed networks, mass surveillance, and new flows of globalized capital. In the near-future southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, a research group works on a DNA identification project that will allow the Ministry of Genetics to track every movement of the country's citizens without their knowledge or consent. But this new technology seeds a far more radical transformation of human life and civilization."--back cover.