Counting Heads

Counting Heads
Counting Heads  
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Author(s) David Marusek
Cover artist Chris Moore
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction
Publisher Tor Books
Publication date 2005
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 336
ISBN 0765312670
OCLC Number 58043015
Dewey Decimal 813/.6 22
LC Classification PS3613.A788 C68 2005
Followed by Mind Over Ship

Counting Heads is a science fiction novel by David Marusek, published in 2005 by Tor Books.

Counting Heads is an expansion of Marusek's 1995 short story "We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy", which serves as the first chapter of Counting Heads (with minor revisions from its original rendition as a short story).

Mind Over Ship, a sequel to Counting Heads, was released on January 20, 2009.[1]

Analysis

The extended story from We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy, happening in 2092-4, occupies the first part of the novel. The other two parts are set 40 years later, in 2134.

This is the story of an over-crowded humanity. The individual is obsolete here, even the family is a fluid notion. In such a world as described by Marusek, social institutions are oversized and functioning on weird principles. This is a world of caste system and clones.

Even that the plot is basically a murder/espionage mystery, because of the satire and the black humour, but also of the deep analysis of the human soul, the novel is convincing realistic.

References

  1. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/books/review/05itzkoff.html

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