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Author:

Kavenna, Joanna, author.

Title:

Zed : a novel / by Joanna Kavenna.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Doubleday,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

335 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Businessmen--Fiction.
Software failures--Fiction.
Malware (Computer software)--Fiction.
Science fiction.
Dystopian fiction.

Summary:

One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm . . . now what to do with all these messy people? Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient 'lifechain' don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it. Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, Zed asks profound questions about who we are, what we owe to one another, and what makes us human. It describes our moment--the ugliness and the beauty--perfectly. Kavenna is a prophet who has seen deeply into the present--and thrown back her head and laughed.

ISBN:

0385545479
9780385545471

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1089841586

LCCN:

2019007975

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ZYPE837 -- Harlan Community Library (Harlan)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)