The Logoharp: A Cyborg Novel of China and America in the Year 2121 by Arielle S.

Description: The Logoharp by Arielle S. Emmett Named Finalist in the American Fiction Awards 2024 (category Science Fiction: Cyberpunk), The Logoharp describes a coming-of-age of a young American journalist who chooses to work as a media propagandist for China in the 22nd century. Naomi is surgically transplanted, giving her extraordinary powers of foresight and physical strength. Half-human, half-robotic, her unique role for China isnt to report current events, but to foresee and report the future, ensuring the smooth progression of history as dictated by her mysterious Logoharp. This so-called "Harp of Wisdom" is given only to journalistic elites, known as "Reverse Journalists," whose task is to fashion reality for the masses, deconstructing the past to produce a future of acceptable memories. In effect, the harp is a Naomis universal translator and interpreter of political events and plans, encoding not only government agenda but a more mysterious array of voices and signals from unidentified sources.The Logoharp allows Naomi to broadcast in all world languages, ensuring citizen compliance. But when shes tasked with finding a flaw in a State system that balances births and deaths, Naomis suppressed human memories and emotions resurface, compelling her to act against the very institutions she supports. Her mission is made even more complex by unexpected love affairs with a biophysicist who has surgically enhanced her, and another Chinese journalist who treads a fine line between independent documentary and spying on behalf of the State. This novel is based on the authors travels and reporting from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Africa. It is rooted in the facts of two organized societies, China and America, competing today for resources, power, and hegemony. Moreover, the role of media is no longer limited to archiving the past; it is a crucible of social ideas and expression that shape and even predict future events.From the novel cover: She reports the future. And then it happens. Naomi, half-human, half cyborg, is beyond prescient. Shes a Reverse Journalist, working for China in the 22nd century. Naomis job is to foresee and report the events and personalities of the future. Unlike conventional journalists who frame contemporary events, Naomi extrudes the "truth of probable outcomes" to ensure the smooth progression of history. Driven by voices she hears in her Logoharp, a universal translator of instructions and signals from sources she cant identify, Naomi listens, speaks and broadcasts in all world languages, ensuring citizen compliance. But an encounter with a leading architect, Naomis 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. Naomi is tasked with finding a flaw in the architects system that "balances" births and deaths on behalf of the State. But she grows uncomfortable, then furious. Guided by immortals and the dissonant Logoharp, Naomi experiences "unintentional contradiction." The rest isnt silence. She acts. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Arielle Emmett, Ph.D., is a writer, visual journalist and traveling scholar specialising in East Asia, science writing and human interest. She has been a Contributing Editor to Smithsonian Air & Space magazine and a Fulbright Scholar and Specialist in Kenya (2018-2019) and Indonesia (2015). Her work has appeared in Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa (Edward Elgar, pub., 2023), Mother Jones, Smithsonian.com, The Scientist, OMNI, Ms., Parents, Saturday Review, American Journalism Review, Boston Globe, Visual Communications Quarterly, Washington Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit Free Press, Caixin (Beijing), Los Angeles Times Book Review and Globe & Mail (Canada), among others. A Mandarin and French speaker, Emmett has won prizes in magazine and journal competitions staged by the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA), The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the International Communications Association (ICA). She has taught at the International College Beijing, University of Hong Kong Media Studies Centre, Universitas Padjadjaran (West Java, Indonesia) and Strathmore University Law School (Nairobi). Her first science fiction novel, The Logoharp, about China and America a century from now, is part of a planned series on dystopian paths to utopian justice. In July 2024 The Logoharp was named Finalist in the American Fiction Awards 2024 (American Bookfest; Science Fiction: Cyberpunk category) and a top Editors Pick in Publishers Weekly Booklife (July 2024). Literary Titan gave The Logoharp a Five Star rating and awarded the title a Gold Book Award in August 2024. Review ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE LOGOHARP"In the world of The Logoharp, there is no security, not even an objective reality, only the reality created by journalism in reverse. Emmetts novel creates a troubling vision of media that borders on propaganda in an AI-filled future."-HAMILTON BEAN, Ph.D., author of No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of US Intelligence (Praeger)"Prepare to be swept away by an imperfect yet wildly relatable heroine. This ancient, futuristic world will make you angry, frustrated, hopeful, in love, and inspire an uprising within."-GRACE DIIDA, L.L.M., Venture Capital Research"In Arielle Emmetts fevered imaginings one great and ancient state is able to dominate the rest using an unbeatable secret weapon. Logoharps. Creatures able to see into the future, ensuring the state is always a step ahead. That is, until one rebels. Imagine Mona Lisa Overdrive meshed with The Wind-Up Girl. Thats the kind of sci-fi ride youre in for with The Logoharp."-KEVIN SITES, author of The Ocean Above Me (HarperCollins)"Loved The Logoharp! Its genuinely original, disturbing in a provocative way, occasionally funny and erotic, creative and well-paced - and I cant get those ice sleighs out of my head! Naomi is one strange -and beguiling-heroine."-LAURA BERMAN, feature writer, retired columnist, The Detroit News Details ISBN Author Arielle S. Emmett Pages 466 Publisher Leaping Tiger Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9798990340121 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-07-12 Imprint Leaping Tiger Press Subtitle A Cyborg Novel of China and America in the Year 2121 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161140976;

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