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Cover art: Chris Moore
Blurb: “Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist, certainly one of the most important first novels of the year and perhaps the decade.
The year is 2134, and the living is easy. The Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy, in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Almost everything one needs— clothing, food, furniture, medicine, electronics, etc.— can be easily fabricated in the home with nanotech assem-blers. Life-extension therapies have increased the human life span by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligence) and robots do most of society's work.
What they can't manage is performed by a contented labor force of human clones.
If this sounds like paradise, it is — but only as long as you make your payments. And that's the problem.
The Boutique Economy has made redundant 99 percent of the world's fifteen billion human inhabitants. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away.
And conditions on Earth are about to get a lot worse.
Without much in the way of public debate, greater Chicagoland announces the deactivation of its canopy.
Its canopy is a region-wide filtering dome structure that protects the city from airborne and waterborne viruses, toxins, and nanobots (a legacy of the terror wars of the mid-twenty-first century).”
"David Marusek is a wonderful writer...:An important writer in the making!"-JACK DANN
"David Marusek is an extraordinarily gifted new writer, with unique ears and eyes for the nuances of life and its ironies." -PAUL LEVINSON