{"product_id":"zed","title":"Zed","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eZed\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJoanna Kavenna\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780385545471\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDoubleday\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[An] insightful, unsettling look at how technology impacts our lives. . .Kavenna has skillfully made our present feel like dystopian fiction.\" \u003cb\u003eUSA TODAY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2020 by USA TODAY \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we do--before we do.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm . . . now what to do with all these messy people?\u003cbr\u003e Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient 'lifechain' don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it.\u003cbr\u003e Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, Zed asks profound questions about who we are, what we owe to one another, and what makes us human. It describes our moment--the ugliness and the beauty--perfectly. Kavenna is a prophet who has seen deeply into the present--and thrown back her head and laughed.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Doubleday","offers":[{"title":"Zed | Joanna Kavenna | Hardcover | 9780385545471 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1743623","offer_id":48199117766808,"sku":"1743623","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71YoNNAJeTL.jpg?v=1772546644","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/zed","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}