Counting Heads - David Masurek - 2007 Tor Books Trade Paperback - Chris Moore Cover

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name/notes inside 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 sou