Maggie Roche is an out-of-work poet and single mother. Spied on by a cyborged rat, attacked, drugged into panic and rapture, seduced, drawn into conspiracy, she's flung four thousand years into her own future. In the alien world of the Ull- Upload Lifeform Lords who are human-machine hybrids of overwhelming power-she learns that she is history's first true time traveler, hunted by friend and foe to the end of time. The entire future of the cosmos will be reset by these terrifying events. The Judas Mandala introduced the terms "virtual reality" and "virtual matrix," anticipating Frank Tipler's influential Omega Point Theory, William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction, and The Matrix... A new Afterword describes the strange publishing history of this ground-breaking novel, and includes the full text of an omitted chapter. "Experience an epic sense of immensity: an inkling of humanit's perhaps limitless possibilities within the strangeness of our universe." -Australian Book Review
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The Judas Mandala begins with a Maggie Roche living a hard and uninteresting life in the twenty-first century. Born in 1980, she is divorced, a mother, a poet, and unemployed. At the Unemployment Office where she receives her weekly allowance she is given an address she is to report to that night. When she returns to her apartment, she discovers a large sum of money has been deposited into her account.
She goes to the address on the paper, and finds it is a large mansion. Inside, the same lady at the Unemployment Office greets her, along with a Professor of Psychology. The two give her an injection that enables her to travel, unaided, through time. While attempting to escape, she unwillingly moves into the future, winding up some four thousand years later - in a world where humanity is dominated by intelligent machines.
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