First published 2017
Irina possesses an artificial memory that grants her perfect recall. She works as an intermediary between wealthy employers and their opaque artificial intelligences in a future San Francisco where rising seas have displaced millions and security drones guard the rich from desperate refugees. Her enhanced memory pays for treatments at the Mayo Clinic that halt her aging. Meanwhile, Kern survives in the sprawling favelas built by drones on the city's edges. He trains constantly in martial arts and makes his living as a thief and enforcer among the poor masses kept out by aerial patrols. In Los Angeles, Thales, a mathematics prodigy from a Brazilian political family, recovers from an attack that killed his father and left him disabled. When a stranger confronts Thales about his memories, when Kern steals from the wrong target and must run, and when Irina discovers something hidden in the reflection of her employer's glasses, their separate worlds begin to converge. Invisible forces draw the three together as violence and artificial intelligence collide in Mason's exploration of memory, mortality, and survival.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: converging-storylines, near-future
Setting: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Brazil
Period: Future
385 pages · Hardcover · Farrar, Straus and Giroux