A Calculated Life
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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...
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- Pages: 208 pages
- ISBN: 9781477849514 / 0
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I picked this up after it was nominated for the Kitschies (a Kitschy?), because I've read lots of nominees/winners I enjoyed (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Redemption in Indigo, Zoo City, Ancillary Justice, AND A Tale for the Time Being, but this one was pretty mediocre. The ideas just mostly felt very tired, and the execution was... In this age when US corporations have been granted legal personage without the bother of liability or social responsibility, I see A Calculated Life as a rendition of corporate utopia. At its core, corporate employees are in the process of being replaced with leased workers who have been constructed with hyper-qualifications to perform... This amazing novel both reshapes and reaffirms our understanding of humanity through an 'alien' yet sympathetic protagonist who starts to find herself as she questions her assigned role in the world and embraces her flaws. Through Jayna, Anne Charnock brings warmth and poetry to the field of statistical analysis and leads us on a fascinating...
