Zero Degrees of Separation

零度分離

Production Company

Rye Field Publishing Co.

Six incredible urban legends that stem from six crime reports in 23rd century.

A journalist named Adelia investigates six cases and publishes the in-depth reports that trigger heated debates on morals. These cases include a rebellion against humans started by artificial intelligence, an attempted murder by a dream therapist, a scientist who can communicate with whales, a virtual pop idol fraud, a mass suicide committed in the cult “The Consciousness of Earth”, and the mysterious disappearance of an award-winning actress. The book is published in 2284, and what remains even more enigmatic than these unbelievable stories is Adelia’s identity. Some evidence indicates that she seems to have lived for more than two hundred years…

Zero Degrees of Separation

Year|2021

Text type|novel, short story

Genre|thriller, sci-fi, romance

#AI #cult #dream #cetacean #23rd century #journalist
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.TiBE Book Prizes, Taiwan Literature Awards, Wu San-lien Awards, China Douban Top Ten Best Books in 2021 (sci-fi category)

.Translations rights have been sold in Simplified Chinese

Intro
Egoyan Zheng
Rye Field Publishing Co.

Egoyan Zheng is a novelist and poet. His works include Zero Degrees of Separation, The Dream Devourer, GroundZero, Lightness as Solitude, You are a Light in My Eyes and Visiting Aunt Candy. Many of his books have been translated into different languages and published in several countries such as Japan, Korea and Czech Republic.

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