“Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn’t rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to the point of opacity. It’s a good gig, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging.

“Kern has no such access; he’s one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city’s periphery, where he lives like a monk, training relentlessly in martial arts, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely―the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan, he’s fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead.

“A ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop’s screen in her employer’s eyeglasses. None are safe as they’re pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight.”

Programmers will recognize the themes behind this book immediately, thanks to the perhaps unintentional double-entendre hidden in this book’s title. Void Star is about memory, neural implants, and the pursuit of eternal life. An immediate cyberpunk classic, Void Star is a book you won’t forget anytime soon.

Book Details

Month	March 2018
Meetup Date	Saturday April 7 2018 18:00:00
Meetup Location	XION
Referer	rogerclark
Amazon Link	http://a.co/5YHCYs6