Zed: a novel
(Book)
Author:
Status:
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
East Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
East Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
Holly Springs Community - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
Leesville Community - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
Morrisville Community - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
Morrisville Community - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
Checked out
North Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
North Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
North Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction
KAVENNA
On Shelf
More Details
Published:
New York : Doubleday, [2019].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First American edition.
Physical Desc:
335 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780385545471, 0385545479, 9780385545471
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd., London, in 2019"--Title page verso.
Description
One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people? 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. 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.
Description
One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people? 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. 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.
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Kavenna, J. (2019). Zed: a novel. First American edition. Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kavenna, Joanna. 2019. Zed: A Novel. Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kavenna, Joanna, Zed: A Novel. Doubleday, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kavenna, Joanna. Zed: A Novel. First American edition. Doubleday, 2019.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
7f313077-5679-7ac7-d7a1-cf829175f498
Record Information
| Last Horizon Extract Time | Sep 09, 2025 12:30:26 AM |
|---|---|
| Last File Modification Time | Sep 09, 2025 05:10:36 AM |
| Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Sep 09, 2025 05:08:33 AM |
MARC Record
| LEADER | 04254pam a2200637 i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 2019007975 | ||
| 003 | DLC | ||
| 005 | 20250830080000.0 | ||
| 008 | 190308r20192019nyu 000 1 eng | ||
| 010 | |a 2019007975 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780385545471 |c $27.95 | ||
| 020 | |a 0385545479 |c $27.95 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780385545471 |q (hbk.) | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1089841586 | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d DLC |d TnLvILS |d UtOrBLW | ||
| 042 | |a pcc | ||
| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a PR6111.A88 |b Z3 2020 |
| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 823/.92 |2 23 |
| 092 | |a KAVENNA | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Kavenna, Joanna |e author. |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Zed : |b a novel / |c Joanna Kavenna. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Doubleday, |c [2019] | |
| 300 | |a 335 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people? 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. 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. | |
| 500 | |a "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd., London, in 2019"--Title page verso. | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people? 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. 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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chief executive officers |v Fiction | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Software failures |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Malware (Computer software) |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Hackers |v Fiction | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Adulterers |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Man-woman relationships |v Fiction | |
| 655 | 0 | 7 | |a Fiction |2 lcgft |
| 655 | 7 | |a Dystopian fiction |2 lcgft | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Kavenna, Joanna, author. |t Zed |b First Edition. |d New York : Doubleday, [2020] |z 9780385545488 |w (DLC) 2019011929 |
| 939 | |a ODC |b COM9445062BT |c 1 | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545679 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l ADR |n 7235777 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 1 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545661 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l CRY |n 7235776 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 6 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545570 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l ERL |n 7235767 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 9 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545604 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l EVA |n 7235770 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 3 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545653 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l HSP |n 7235775 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 3 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545612 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l LEE |n 7235771 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 6 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545596 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l MOR |n 7235769 |o 0 |s o |w 10/30/2019 |x 7 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545554 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l MOR |n 7235765 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 5 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545588 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l NER |n 7235768 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 2 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545620 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l NOR |n 7235772 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 8 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545646 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l NOR |n 7235774 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 8 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545547 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l NOR |n 7235764 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 4 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545562 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l SER |n 7235766 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 3 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046304338374 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l WRL |n 7383303 |o 0 |s i |w 04/29/2020 |x 1 |y BK | ||
| 949 | |b 32046819545638 |c SYSAFIC |d KAVENNA |l WRL |n 7235773 |o 0 |s i |w 10/30/2019 |x 2 |y BK | ||
| 999 | |a 741383 | ||