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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 t...
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 t...
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Void Star Is Literary Cyberpunk for Today’s Future
Void Star, the second novel by Zachary Mason, is a dizzying, astonishing read. Though published as “literary fiction” (meaning, you won’t find it shelved with the other sci-fi books), it makes no effort to hide its roots in the classics of early cyberpunk with its poetic prose; intricate mind-bender plotting; and meditations on memory, both real […]
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