A Calculated Life

Anne Charnock

2013년 12월 · Brilliance Audio · 내레이터: Susan Duerden

오디오북

6시간 50분

원본

적용 가능

무료 9분 샘플을 들어 보고 싶으신가요? 오프라인일 때를 비롯해 언제든지 들을 수 있습니다.

추가

오디오북 정보

Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Debut Novel) 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, Jayna suspects she needs more data and better intuition. She needs direct interactions with the rest of society. Bravely—and naively—she sets out to disrupt her strict routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world where her IQ is increasingly irrelevant...a place where human relationships and the complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she experiments with taking risks, she crosses the line into corporate intrigue and disloyalty.

Can Jayna confront the question of what it means to live a “normal” life? Or has the possibility of a “normal” life already been eclipsed for everyone?

Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Debut Novel) 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. Viole...

콘텐츠 둘러보기

저자 정보

Anne Charnock is a journalist and novelist. She attended the University of East Anglia, studying environmental sciences. She earned a master's in fine arts at The Manchester School of Art. Her journalism career includes time as a foreign correspondent, travelling in the Middle East, Africa and India. Her work was published in New Scientist, The Guardian, Financial Times, Geographical, and other publication. Her novels include A Calculated Life, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind, Dreams Before the Start of Time. She is author of the novella The Enclave, which won the British Science Fiction Association 2017 Award for Best Short Fiction. Her 2017 novel, Dreams Before the Start of Time, won the 2018 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction. Susan Duerden is a multi Earphone and Audie award winning narrator. Her career spans film, television, voiceover and animation. She has played critically acclaimed, award-winning theatrical roles on London's West End and Off Broadway. Recent work includes a recurring role on ABC's "Lost", "The Unit" and the films "Double Duty", "Lovewrecked" and "Flushed Away" for DreamWorks.