A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of artificial intelligence, memory, violence and mortality
Zachary Mason is the author of the New York Times bestsellingnovel The Lost Books of the Odyssey and, more recently, Void Star, which has been optioned for film.He lives in California.
Sentence by sparkling sentence, Zachary Mason’s Void Star is [a
fine] novel… Void Star is an aesthetic joy, with a chilling style
often reminiscent of Don DeLillo.
*Times Literary Supplement*
A computer scientist by day, Mason deploys serious literary chops
in a cyberpunk escapade that should have the producers of Total
Recall or Inception drooling… Mind-bendingly engaging and most
definitely not for nerds only.
*Mail on Sunday*
An enjoyably driving techno-thriller with literary ambition, and as
such it may be read as being in close dialogue with the work of SF
demigod William Gibson, admirers of whom may see in this novel a
lot of influence, even outright homage.
*Guardian*
Void Star is an extraordinary novel. The hallucinatory beauty of
the prose is matched only by the book’s velocity and mystery, and
the story – of mortality, memory- and what it means to be human –
holds all the force and power of mythology.
*Emily St John Mandel*
Zachary Mason's magisterial new novel is a passionate immersion in
science fiction, sure to delight even the most hardcore devotees of
Delany, Mieville, and Dick. The greatest speculative writing
intoxicates and terrifies us in equal measure with the visions it
offers, and in this Void Star is no exception. A dazzling book.
*John Wray*
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