They're the golden couple of Santa Fe. With his vast wealth, Molloy
has launched an innovative foundation. His new wife, Judith
Greenwood, is an internationally known scientist, who works at the
famous think-tank, the Santa Fe Institute, pursuing the sciences of
complexity. They've found each other late in life, and their love
story is the envy of everyone in town. Santa Feans yearn to be
invited to the famous long table Molloy and his wife host every
Sunday night, or to their monthly salon, for the best talk, the
best food, and the best wine. Sure to be at these evenings are some
of the couple's closest friends, the "starchitect" Leandro Torres,
known worldwide for his prize-winning buildings; the influential
gallery owner, Nola Holliman; and the beautiful trilingual legal
translator, Lucie Marchmont. Yet each of these enviable men and
women conceals a tragic personal story. When 9/11 occurs in faraway
New York City, these privileged Santa Feans are deeply affected,
and must struggle to keep their secrets hidden. An
intergenerational struggle erupts, where fathers and sons, and even
grandfathers, intrude on each other's lives. As everyone negotiates
the catastrophic autumn of 2001, two deaths, plus a nearly fatal
car accident, intensify already raw emotions. Though each of these
friends suffers deeply, and seeks consolation in very different
ways, it is above all Molloy and his wife, the golden couple, who
are forced to confront the cruelest meanings of the poem they've
loved and read together, "Paradise Lost." PAMELA McCORDUCK is the
author or coauthor of ten published books, three of them novels.
"Bounded Rationality" is the second in a projected series of Santa
Fe Stories, a trilogy whose first book is "The Edge of Chaos," also
published by Sunstone Press. Her "Machines Who Think," a history of
artificial intelligence, was honored the year of its publication by
the New York Public Library; and was reissued in 2004 in a 25th
anniversary edition. She has recently written and lectured on "the
singularity," that future moment when computers might be more
intelligent than their human creators. Among her other books are
"The Universal Machine." a study of the worldwide intellectual
impact of the computer, and "Aaron's Code," an inquiry into the
future of art and artificial intelligence. With Nancy Ramsey, she
wrote "The Futures of Women," four scenarios for women worldwide in
the year 2015. She has consulted, and constructed future scenarios,
for numerous firms in the transportation, financial, and high-tech
sectors. She has appeared on CBS, CNN, and Public Television, and
CNN devoted a two-part series to "The Futures of Women." She
divides her time between New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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