Counting Heads
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Suzanne Bishop
Terry Boren
Maggie Flinn
Dixon Jones
Holly Wade Matter
Jackie Stormer
Sandra Boatwright
Charles Brown
Colleen Herning
Marion Avrilyn Jones
Katherine Patrick
Cynthia Ward
Vincent Bonasso
Gardner Dozois
Elizabeth Ann Hull
Paula Kothe
Kate Schaefer
A snappy salute to my agent, Ralph Vicinanza, and my editor, David G. Hartwell, for their leap of faith in taking me on.
I started this book as a house guest of Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler in London, and finished it as a house guest of Russell and Avis Ruffu in Denton, Texas. Thank you so much for sharing the creative ambiance of your lovely households. And special thanks to Candis Shannon for looking after Kika while I was away.
Finally, much appreciation to the Rasmuson Foundation for a grant to help promote this book.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
COUNTING HEADS
Copyright © 2005 by David Marusek
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by David G. Hartwell
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Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marusek, David.
Counting heads/David Marusek.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN: 978-1-4299-3250-9
1. Twenty-second century—Fiction. 2. Overpopulation—Fiction. 3. Assassination—Fiction. 4. Immortalism—Fiction. 5. Rich people—Fiction. 6. Cryonics—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3613.A788 C68 2005
813’.6—dc22
2005005316