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Counting Heads
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Series: Counting Heads, Book 1
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ISBN10: 0765317540
ISBN13: 9780765317544
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780765317544
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
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.1 different editions
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