02519cam a2200337 i 4500 19382018 O 20220421144320.0 161121s2017 nyu 000 1 eng 2016033247 9780374285067 (hardcover) 9780374709822 (ebook) PUL eng PUL rda PUL pcc PS 3613 .A8185V65 2017 813/.6 23 FIC019000 bisacsh Mason, Zachary, 1974- author. Void star / Zachary Mason. First edition. vii, 385 pages ; 24 cm "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. "-- Artificial intelligence Fiction. Memory Fiction. FICTION / Literary. bisacsh Science fiction. gsafd Dystopias. gsafd 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 33758 33758 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2022-04-21 DON 2022-15864 1 1 PS 3613 .A8185V65 2017 2022-1086 2023-06-26 00:00:00 2023-06-06 2022-04-21 BK