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Counting Heads
	First edition
Author	David Marusek
Cover artist	Chris Moore
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	2005
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	336
ISBN	0-7653-1267-0
OCLC	58043015
Dewey Decimal	813/.6 22
LC Class	PS3613.A788 C68 2005
Followed by	Mind Over Ship

Counting Heads is a science fiction novel by American writer David Marusek, published in 2005 by Tor Books.

Counting Heads is an expansion of Marusek's 1995 short story "We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy", which serves as the first chapter of Counting Heads (with minor revisions from its original rendition as a short story).

Mind Over Ship, a sequel to Counting Heads, was released on January 20, 2009.^[1]

Analysis

The extended story from We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy, happening in 2092-4, occupies the first part of the novel. The other two parts are set 40 years later, in 2134.

Though the novel is a murder/espionage mystery, the main thrust is the evocation of a world in which the individual is essentially obsolete due to automation.

References

^ Itzkoff, Dave (5 March 2006). "It's All Geek to Me". The New York Times.

External links

Counting Heads title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
New York Times: It's All Geek to Me
Amazon.com Page
Curledup Book Review

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[1] Itzkoff, Dave (5 March 2006). "It's All Geek to Me". The New York Times.

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