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Dark Constellations by Pola Oloixarac; Roy Kesey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dark Constellations about?

Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac’s visionary new novel races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future, exploring humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, and leaping forward to the next steps in human evolution. Canary 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. Buenos 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, riding the wave of transformations brought about by distributed networks, mass surveillance, and new flows of globalized capital. The 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. But the new technology contains within it the seeds of a far more radical transformation of

Who reads Dark Constellations?

Author

Pola Oloixarac; Roy Kesey

Publisher

Random House Publishing Services

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616959234

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.8 / 5 (54 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14