Counting Heads

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

COUNTING HEADS

Copyright © 2005 by David Marusek

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Edited by David G. Hartwell

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Marusek, David.

Counting heads/David Marusek.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN: 978-1-4299-3250-9

1. Twenty-second century—Fiction. 2. Overpopulation—Fiction. 3. Assassination—Fiction. 4. Immortalism—Fiction. 5. Rich people—Fiction. 6. Cryonics—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3613.A788 C68 2005

813’.6—dc22

2005005316