READ BY JOHN LEE Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.

Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander, and when that happens, it spams Earth’s networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes—but not everyone. So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth’s anthill, there’s Tech Jury Service: randomly selected humans charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.

“Moving at light speed with a light touch, the novel mixes up a frothy cocktail of technological speculation and a wide variety of geeky in-jokes.” —Publishers Weekly

is a Canadian-born blogger, journalist, and author of nonfiction and award-winning science fiction. He is a contributing author to Wired magazine and coeditor of the blog Boing Boing. His works have earned him numerous awards, including several Prometheus Awards.

author of Accelerando, Halting State, and Rule 34, is hailed as one of the most original voices in modern science fiction. His short fiction has won multiple Hugo and Locus awards. He lives in Edinburgh.

Running Time: 9½ Hours • Unabridged

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