David Marusek

Counting Heads (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tor Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429932509
• Artikelnr.: 39937597

Autorenporträt

Award-winning 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 Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park. Visit him at www.marusek.com.