01501cam a2200349 i 4500 1164814421 TxAuBib 20200207120000.0 190308s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019007975 9780385545471 hardcover 0385545479 hardcover (OCoLC)1089841586 DLC eng rda DLC BDX YDX ORX IEP TxAuBib rda Kavenna, Joanna, author. Zed : a novel / Joanna Kavenna. First American Edition. New York : Doubleday, [2020] 335 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2019. 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. 20200207. Chief executive officers Fiction. Adulterers Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Dystopias Fiction. Science fiction. TXKIP