Counting Heads
Autor David Maruseken Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2007
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Locus Awards (2006)
Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligences) and robots do most of society's work. The Boutique Economy has made redundant ninety-nine percent of the world's fifteen billion human inhabitants. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away.
Eleanor K. Starke, one of the world's leading citizens is assassinated, and her daughter, Ellen, is mortally wounded. Only Ellen, the heir to her mother's financial empire, is capable of saving Earth from complete domination plotted by the cynical, selfish, immortal rich, that is if she survives. Her cryonically frozen head is in the hands of her family's enemies. A ragtag ensemble of unlikely heroes join forces to rescue Ellen's head, all for their own purposes.
Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780765317544
ISBN-10: 0765317540
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 161 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Tor Books
ISBN-10: 0765317540
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 161 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Tor Books
Notă biografică
Author David Marusek writes science fiction in a cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska. His work has appeared in Playboy, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Asimov's, and other periodicals and anthologies around the world and has been translated into ten languages. According to Publisher's Weekly, "Marusek's writing is ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny, as he forces readers to stretch their imaginations and sympathies." His current series, Upon This Rock, is a tale of love, faith, and alien invasion set in the Alaska bush.
Recenzii
Praise for David Marusek: "David Marusek is an extraordinarily gifted new writer, with unique ears and eyes . . . .Brims over with imaginative extrapolations." -"Seattle-""Post Intelligencer" "David Marusek's "Counting Heads" is the most exciting debut sf novel I've read since "Neuromancer." "Counting Heads" isn't just one of the best first sf novels to come down the pike in some time; it's one of the best novels, period. I hope David Marusek will be writing more of them for centuries to come." -Elizabeth Hand, "F & SF" ""Counting Heads" was one of my favorite books of last year in any category, and an exemplary entry in the sci-fi genre." -"The New York Times Book Review" "Marusek keeps a deep and textured tale spinning along, filled with stresses, shocks and sidelong looks at extrapolations of present-day trends. I took extra care to keep my copy pristine, so it'll be presentable when I hand it off to another reader who'll enjoy it as much as I did." -"The San Diego Union-Tribune" ""Counting Heads "is a compelling and powerful read. Marusek isn't afraid of asking hard questions--nor is he afraid to try and find answers. . . .One of the best sf novels of this (and perhaps any year) "Counting Heads" gives us a rich mix of social commentary, speculation, and adventure, all garnished with a tiny pinch of hope."--"Vector" "There are more ideas to the page in this auspicious debut novel than many sci-fi novels have in their entirety. . . .Marusek evokes an impelling sense of wonder with an awesomely imaginative and all-too-believable future chock full of nifty details while allowing his characters to compel the novel. "Counting Heads" is a marvelous must-read from an author who must be noted as an important new voice in science fiction." --"CFQ" "David Marusek's first novel is a wildly inventive story of a future dependent on clones and artificial intelligence. . . . "Counting Heads" is thick with invention and has an ac
Descriere
Maruseks extraordinary launch in the science fiction genre presents readers with an entirely new vision of the future. The year is 2134, and 99 percent of the worlds 15 billion human inhabitants are rendered obsolete. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away.
Premii
- Locus Awards Nominee, 2006