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SUMMARY:A Calculated Life - Anne Charnock (Kitschies & Philip K. Dick Award
  Nominee)
DESCRIPTION:Nominated for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award and a finalist for 
 the 2013 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Debut Novel) Award.\n\nLate in the twe
 nty-first century\, big business is booming and state institutions are thr
 iving thanks to advances in genetic engineering\, which have produced a co
 mpliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity.\n\nHyper
 -intelligent Jayna is a star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McC
 line\, where she forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathema
 tical modeler\, she far outshines her co-workers\, often correcting their 
 work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly w
 inds and violent crime.\n\nWhen a string of events contradicts her forecas
 ts\, Jayna suspects she needs more data and better intuition. She needs di
 rect interactions with the rest of society. Bravely—and naively—she se
 ts out to disrupt her strict routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world
  where her IQ is increasingly irrelevant…a place where human relationshi
 ps and the complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she 
 experiments with taking risks\, she crosses the line into corporate intrig
 ue and disloyalty.\n\nCan Jayna confront the question of what it means to 
 live a “normal” life? Or has the possibility of a “normal” life al
 ready been eclipsed for everyone?\n\n
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