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001			19382018
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005			20220421144320.0
008			161121s2017 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2016033247
020			_a9780374285067 (hardcover)
020			_z9780374709822 (ebook)
040			_aPUL _beng _cPUL _erda _dPUL
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS 3613 _b.A8185V65 2017
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223
084			_aFIC019000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aMason, Zachary, _d1974- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aVoid star / _cZachary Mason.
250			_aFirst edition.
300			_avii, 385 pages ; _c24 cm
520			_a"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. "--
650		0	_aArtificial intelligence _vFiction.
650		0	_aMemory _vFiction.
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
655		7	_aScience fiction. _2gsafd
655		7	_aDystopias. _2gsafd
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