{"product_id":"2940169839111","title":"Void Star","description":"\u003cp\u003eA riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrina 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKern 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThales 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivid, tumultuous, and propulsive, \u003ci\u003eVoid Star\u003c\/i\u003e is Zachary Mason¿s mind-bending follow-up to his critically-acclaimed novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Books of the Odyssey.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099776106736,"sku":"2940169839111","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169839111_p0.jpg?v=1769901652","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169839111","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}