Counting Heads - David Marusek - 2005 1st Tor Books Hardback Ex Lib. - Chris Moore Cover

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Former library book. Cover art: Chris Moore Blurb: “ Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist, certainly one of the most important first novels of the year and perhaps the decade. The year is 2134, and the living is easy. The Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy, in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Almost everything one needs— clothing, food, furniture, medicine, electronics, etc.— can be easily fabricated in the home with nanotech assem-blers. Life-extension therapies have increased the human life span by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligence) and robots do most of society's work. What they can't manage is performed by a contented labor force of human clones. If this sounds like paradise, it is — but only as long as you make your payments. And that's the problem. The Boutique Economy has made redundant 99 percent of the world's