Void Star
7
%
418 Kč 449 Kč
Sleva až 70% u třetiny knih
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.
Autor: | Mason, Zachary |
Nakladatel: | Picador |
ISBN: | -15214 |
Rok vydání: | CZE |
Jazyk : | Čeština |
Vazba: | CZE |
Počet stran: | CZE |
Mohlo by se vám také líbit..
-
Die verlorenen Bücher der Odyssee
Mason, Zachary
-
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Mason, Zachary
-
Metamorphica
Mason, Zachary
-
Void Star
Mason, Zachary
-
Jackself
Polley Jacob
-
Kiss Me First (Film Tie In)
Lottie Moggach
-
The Topeka School
Lerner, Ben
-
The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst
-
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
-
The Reason You´re Alive
Matthew Quick
-
Saltwater
Andrews, Jessica
-
Number One Chinese Restaurant
Lillian Too
-
The Great Fire
Hazzard, Shirley
-
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Traven, B.
-
In the Garden of the Fugitives
Dovey, Ceridwen
-
Death Is Hard Work
Khalifa, Khaled