Nominated for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award! Late in the
twenty-first century, big business is booming and state
institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic
engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of
addictions. Violent crime is a rarity. Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a
star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McCline, where she
forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathematical
modeler, she far outshines her co-workers, often correcting their
work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between
northeasterly winds and violent crime. When a string of events
contradicts her forecasts, Jayna suspects she needs more data and
better intuition. She needs direct interactions with the rest of
society. Bravely—and naively—she sets out to disrupt her strict
routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world where her IQ is
increasingly irrelevant…a place where human relationships and the
complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she
experiments with taking risks, she crosses the line into corporate
intrigue and disloyalty. Can Jayna confront the question of what it
means to live a “normal” life? Or has the possibility of a
“normal” life already been eclipsed for everyone?
General
| Imprint: |
47north
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2013 |
| Firstpublished: |
2013 |
| Authors: |
Anne Charnock
|
| Dimensions: |
141 x 210 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4778-4951-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4778-4951-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781477849514 |
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