Naomi, half-human, half-cyborg, is beyond prescient. Born American, she’s a Reverse Journalist, working for China, the dominant global power of the 22nd century. Naomi’s mission isn’t to report currents. She applies algorithms to evaluate millions of political scenarios from a ‘Database of Crowds,’ forecasting the future with deadly precision.

Driven by voices she hears in her Logoharp, a neural instrument that doubles the size of her brain, Naomi translates both Party instructions and more mysterious signals from sources she can’t identify. She speaks and broadcasts in 104 world languages, ensuring citizen compliance.

But an encounter with a leading architect, Naomi’s former lover who abandoned her in youth, forces recollections of her human inheritance. When she’s tasked with finding a flaw in the architect’s system that “balances” births and deaths on behalf of the State, she grows uncomfortable, then furious. The rest isn’t silence. She acts.

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