David Marusek - Counting Heads (Counting Heads #1)

Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist:
The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique
Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete.
Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries.
Loyal mentars (artificial intelligences) and robots do most of society's
work. The Boutique Economy has made redundant ninety-nine percent of
the world's fifteen billion human inhabitants. The world would be a
much better place if they all simply went away.

Eleanor K. Starke, one of the world's leading citizens is assassinated,
and her daughter, Ellen, is mortally wounded. Only Ellen, the heir to
her mother's financial empire, is capable of saving Earth from complete
domination plotted by the cynical, selfish, immortal rich, that is if
she survives. Her cryonically frozen head is in the hands of her family's
enemies. A ragtag ensemble of unlikely heroes join forces to rescue
Ellen's head, all for their own purposes.

Read by Alec Volz
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Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity,
galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.