在不远的未来，海洋上升，中部的纬度区域越来越空，但有钱人在旧金山仍然过着舒适的日子，无人机在空中巡视，以防止大量的穷人来到这里。Irina不是有钱人，而且相当穷，但她拥有的人工记忆给了她完美的记忆力，让她可以充当她的各种雇主与他们的AI之间的中间人，因为他们已经复杂到让人难以理解的程度了。这份临时工作还不错，薪酬足够让她每年去一次Mayo Clinic，这个地方可以让她保持年轻。

Kern没有这样的机会；他是众多生活在用无人机建造、位于城市边缘的贫民窟的难民之一，他在这里活得像个和尚，不停地练着武术，靠当小偷和执法者勉强维持生计。Thales来自一个完全不同的世界——他出身于巴西的一个政治家族，擅长数学。那场袭击杀死了他的父亲，让他成了残废，之后他逃到了拉斯维加斯。

一个衣衫褴褛的陌生人贸然跟Thales 搭讪，他想知道Thales记得多少。Kern偷了不该偷的东西之后去逃命了。Irina在投射到她老板眼镜上的笔记本屏幕中发现了一个秘密。他们被种种看不见的不明力量推到了一起，每个人都身处险境。

A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality

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, which are complex to the point of opacity. 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. Thales is from a different world entirely--the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan, he's fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead.

A ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop's screen in her employer's eyeglasses. None are safe as they're pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight.

Vivid, tumultuous, and propulsive, Void Star is Zachary Mason's mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.