"Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich--not quite--but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs ... It's a good gig, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging. Kern has no such access: he's one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city's periphery, where he lives like a monk, training relentlessly in martial arts, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer"-- Provided by publisher.
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