{"product_id":"the-logoharp-a-cyborg-novel-of-china-and-america-in-the-year-2121-9798990340121","title":"The Logoharp: A Cyborg Novel of China and America in the Year 2121","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNamed Finalist in the American Fiction Awards 2024 (category Science Fiction: Cyberpunk), The Logoharp \u003c\/em\u003edescribes the extraordinary journey of a young American journalist who chooses to work as an AI-driven propagandist for China in the 22nd century. Naomi is surgically transplanted, giving her extraordinary powers of foresight and physical strength. \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eShe hears voices\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ein her \u003cem\u003eLogoharp, \u003c\/em\u003e a universal translator of all world languages, allowing her take the pulse of global crowds, predicting and broadcasting future political and social events with deadly precision.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBut Naomi also hears discordant voices coming from an unidentified source. She only knows these are strange, faint, and contradictory voices that sing to her of other worlds, other freedoms. When she's tasked with finding a flaw in a State system that balances births and deaths -a system devised by a Chinese architect, Naomi's lover who abandoned her in youth-she experiences \"unintentional contradiction.\" Suppressed human memories and emotions resurface, compelling her to act against the very institutions she supports. Her decision has unexpected consequences for the men and women she loves, for her own body, and for the global societies she's vowed to protect.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the novel cover: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShe reports the future. And then it happens.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Naomi, half-human, half cyborg, is beyond prescient. She's a \u003cem\u003eReverse Journalist\u003c\/em\u003e, working for China in the 22\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e century. Naomi's job is to foresee and report the events and personalities of the\u003cem\u003e future. \u003c\/em\u003eUnlike conventional journalists who frame contemporary events, Naomi extrudes the \"truth of probable outcomes\" to ensure the smooth progression of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Driven by voices she hears in her \u003cem\u003eLogoharp, \u003c\/em\u003e a universal translator of instructions and signals from sources she can't identify, Naomi listens, speaks and broadcasts in all 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 and the role that chance, culture and racism played in her early life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Naomi is tasked with finding a flaw in the architect's system that \"balances\" births and deaths on behalf of the State. But she grows uncomfortable, then furious. Guided by immortals and\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethe dissonant \u003cem\u003eLogoharp, \u003c\/em\u003eNaomi experiences \"unintentional contradiction.\" The rest isn't silence. She \u003cem\u003eacts.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmmett, Arielle S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Arielle Emmett, Ph.D., is a writer, science journalist. and traveling scholar specializing in East Asia and Africa. She has been a Contributing Editor to Smithsonian Air \u0026amp; Space magazine (2014-2021) and a Fulbright Scholar and Specialist in Kenya (2018-2019) and Indonesia (2015). A Mandarin and French speaker, Emmett has won prizes in magazine and journal competitions staged by the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and the International Communications Association (ICA). She has reported and taught in China and Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, East Africa, Ireland, and Italy. In July 2024 The Logoharp, Emmett's debut work of literary and feminist fiction, was named Finalist in Science Fiction at the American Fiction Awards 2024. The novel was named Editor's Pick in Publishers Weekly Booklife. 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