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Anne Charnock - A Calculated Life - 9781477849514 - V9781477849514
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A Calculated Life

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Description for A Calculated Life Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
Nominated for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award! Late in the twenty-first century, big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity. Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McCline, where she forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathematical modeler, she far outshines her co-workers, often correcting their work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly winds and violent crime. When a string of events contradicts her forecasts, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
47North
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9781477849514
SKU
V9781477849514
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-30

About Anne Charnock
Anne Charnock's debut novel, A Calculated Life, was nominated for the 2013 Philip K Dick Award and the 2013 Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award (Debut Novel). Her writing career began in journalism. Her articles appeared in the Guardian, New Scientist, International Herald Tribune, and Geographical. She was educated at the University of East Anglia, where she studied environmental sciences, and at ... Read more

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