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A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality
Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to the point of opacity. It's a good gig, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging.
Kern has no such access; he's one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city's periphery, where he lives like a monk, training relentlessly in martial arts, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely-the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan, he's fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead.
A ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop's screen in her employer's eyeglasses. None are safe as they're pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight.
Vivid, tumultuous, and propulsive, Void Star is Zachary Mason's mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality
Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to the point of opacity. It's a good gig, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging.
Kern has no such access; he's one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city's periphery, where he lives like a monk, training relentlessly in martial arts, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely-the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan, he's fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead.
A ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop's screen in her employer's eyeglasses. None are safe as they're pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight.
Vivid, tumultuous, and propulsive, Void Star is Zachary Mason's mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
CONTENTS
1. Floating World 3
2. High Playground 5
3. Oculus 7
4. Negotiable Sense of Place 11
5. Working 15
6. What Forgetting Is 20
7. Discipline 22
8. Unreal City 25
9. Matches 28
10. Laptop 40
11. Theater 50
12. Clinic 55
13. Secret Book 63
14. Ghost 66
15. Future Shift 74
16. Circumference 82
17. Tunnel 84
18. Essential Hardness 91
19. No True Security 93
20. Fundamental Things Never Really Change 101
21. Someone 109
22. Shapes Purely 112
23. Finish Up 116
24. Stillness in Memory 122
25. Just Leaving the Station 129
26. Nonexistent Prisons 132
27. Venice Replicated 136
28. Departure 147
29. Bad Pattern 156
30. Ossuary 163
31. Refuge 167
32. Still Unformed 170
33. Encoded in Form 175
34. Final Sword 177
35. Persephone 183
36. Usually in Trouble 189
37. Cloudbreaker 198
38. Thought Purely 205
39. Lost Coast 207
40. In the Palm of Her Hand 211
41. Oublier 217
42. Tangle of Snakes and Darkness 221
43. Intimacy of the Mundane 223
44. Great Dark Forward 226
45. Good Thing to Own 231
46. Exact Enumeration of Blurred Flocks 237
47. Something to Cry About 242
48. World Is a Chessboard 251
49. Closely Coupled Forms of Nothing in Particular 259
50. Our Lady of Drones 266
51. Never Really Have Happened 271
52. Sphinx Explains Our Horror 275
53. A Little Beyond the Law 281
54. Unwieldy, Lovely, Perhaps Eighteenth Century 288
55. Form on the Water 293
56. Axis Mundi 297
57. Vaguely Cetacean 300
58. Touch Nothing 302
59. Telemetry Irreconcilable 307
60. What They Really Wanted 308
61. Hole in the Wall 310
62. Flaw in His Vision 317
63. Purpose, Impatience, Suffering 324
64. Difficult Transition 329
65. Babel 331
66. Change of Plan 340
67. Future Selves Forgive Her 343
68. Beyond Is Hidden 351
69. Island in the Past 354
70. History Lacks a Story 357
71. Dolos 362
72. Memorial 365
73. Masamune 367
74. Marmont 370
75. No Longer Metaphor 375
76. Continuity 380
77. Arabescato 384
Acknowledgments 387
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781250159410 |
| ISBN-10: | 1250159415 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mason, Zachary |
| Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 224 x 143 x 24 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Zachary Mason |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.04.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,593 kg |
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