Counting Heads
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765317540 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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If only there were a way to get rid of the surplus people. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. But the trip has been exciting and wonderful. Much of the fun in the story is in the telling rather than its destination—which is just as well, since it doesn't so much come to a conclusion as crash headlong into the last page. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Marusek's writing is ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny, as he forces readers to stretch their imaginations and sympathies. . All rights reserved. This extraordinary debut novel puts Marusek in the first rank of SF writers. Life on
A nice start but The first part of this novel was published as a short story and I was stunned. It was the best piece of writing I had seen in a long time. I ran out (to Amazon actually) and bought everything I could find from Marusek. Bad move. The rest of the novel dragged and meandered. Worse yet, there is a sequel. There isn't enough plot here for one novel much le. Chris Andrew Marshall said Great debut and a fun read. A great story set in a rich and vividly imaged world. Story gets a little frayed at the end but is all around a fine read.. "Nothing Original" according to Kenneth G. Schalhoub. Although there are some interesting concepts in this novel, my overall impression is "nothing new." The nano and cloning treatments are light weight versions of Bear, Morgan, Brin and others. If one is looking for science fiction dealing with these areas, choose other books by better authors.
Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.. A ragtag ensemble of unlikely heroes join forces to rescue Ellen's head, all for their own purposes. 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. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away. 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. The Boutique Economy has made redundant ninety-nine percent of the world's fifteen billion human inhabitants. Her cryonically frozen head is in the hands of her family's enemies. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligences) and robots do most of society's work. Eleanor K. Starke, one of the world's leading citizens is assassinated, and her daughter, Ellen, is mortally wounded