The Thief of Numbers
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A rebel heroine, AI ruling lord, and timeless love in a new dark and hopeful novel from Philip K. Dick nominee, Kay Kenyon.
After the apocalypse, 24-year-old Tamar plies her trade of thievery to help her family survive. Her home is an isolated walled city ruled by an embodied AI called the Silver. Only a disloyal few even think of rebelling.
Tamar is one of them. Then she meets Rafayel, an immortal, and an agent of the Silver. With that encounter she is suddenly propelled from her familiar slums to the deadly intrigues of the Silver's palace. At first Rafayel means to use Tamar to his own ends-until she discovers a massive conspiracy, one rooted in the past and pointing to an unthinkable future. Opposing it calls for a thief's special skills. . . and a courage Tamar isn't sure she can summon.
Success hinges on an intricate game of numbers, one that can redeem or kill. Tamar will count on a small band of supporters, people like her who want to bring down the walls. But in the end, it may be Tamar alone who must play the perilous game.
Kay Kenyon
Kay Kenyon is the author of fourteen science fiction and fantasy novels as well as numerous short stories. Her work has been shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick and the John W. Campbell Memorial Awards, the Endeavour Award, and twice for the American Library Association Reading List Awards. Her series The Entire and the Rose was hailed by The Washington Post as "a splendid fantasy quest as compelling as anything by Stephen R. Donaldson, Philip Jose Farmer, or yes, J.R.R. Tolkien." Her novels include Bright of the Sky, A World Too Near, City Without End, Prince of Storms, Maximum Ice (a 2002 Philip K. Dick Award nominee), and The Braided World. Bright of the Sky was among Publishers Weekly's top 150 books of 2007. She is a founding member of the Write on the River conference in Wenatchee, Washington, where she lives with her husband.
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