Zed : a novel
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Published
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
ISBN
1984898345, 9781984898340
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Published
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
ISBN
1984898345, 9781984898340
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd., London, in 2019, and subsequently published in hardcover by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2020."--Title page verso.
Description
One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm... now what to do with all these messy people? Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient 'lifechain' don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it. Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, Zed asks profound questions about who we are, what we owe to one another, and what makes us human. It describes our moment -- the ugliness and the beauty -- perfectly. Kavenna is a prophet who has seen deeply into the present -- and thrown back her head and laughed.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kavenna, J. (2020). Zed: a novel . Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kavenna, Joanna. 2020. Zed: A Novel. Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kavenna, Joanna. Zed: A Novel Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kavenna, Joanna. Zed: A Novel Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
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