{"id":2323,"date":"2018-10-18T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2018-10-18T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:42:16","slug":"zero-sum-game-by-s-l-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"Zero Sum Game, by S. L. Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Review copy provided by Tor Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Math is nearly everything to Cas. It&#8217;s her solace when her mind is too loud, her means of making a living (albeit somewhat unconventionally), her identity, her core. The closer she can come to articulating axioms for individual people, the more comfortable she is dealing with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is good, because comfortable is in pretty short supply in this book otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cas&#8217;s life is violently efficient retrieval services. She associates with people who have even more violence in their worlds&#8211;most notably Rio, a psychopath kept on the rails with a strong moral code external to his sense of self. But the situation she falls into at the beginning of <em>Zero Sum Game<\/em> is an even more dangerous one than she&#8217;s used to&#8211;not just in its violence but in its dangers to her own brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a fast-paced thriller with some clever twists and an uneasy resolution and a few math jokes along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please consider using our link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1250180252\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1250180252&amp;linkId=c5eb6888a0cb1867d868b283cba7e294\" target=\"_blank\">buy <em>Zero Sum Game<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by Tor Books. Math is nearly everything to Cas. It&#8217;s her solace when her mind is too loud, her means of making a living (albeit somewhat unconventionally), her identity, her core. The closer she can come to articulating axioms for individual people, the more comfortable she is dealing with them. Which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}