About The Logoharp: A Cyborg Novel of China and America in the Year 2121
The Logoharp is now a Literary Titan Gold Book Award winner (August 2024) and a “Finalist” in the American Book Awards 2024 (Science Fiction: Cyberpunk category).
“She reports the future. Then it happens.”
Naomi,, half-human and half-cyborg, is beyond prescient. She’s a Reverse Journalist, working for China in the 22nd century. Naomi’s 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 can’t identify, Naomi listens, speaks and broadcasts in all world languages, ensuring citizen compliance. But an encounter with a leading architect, Naomi’s 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 architect’s system that “balances” births and deaths on behalf of the State. But she grows uncomfortable, then furious. Guided by the dissonant Logoharp, Naomi experiences “unintentional contradiction.” The rest isn’t silence. She acts.
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Arielle Emmett, Ph.D., is a science writer, visual journalist and traveling specialist in African-Asian relations. She has been a Contributing Editor to Smithsonian Air & Space magazine and a Fulbright Specialist and Scholar in Indonesia and Kenya. A Mandarin and French speaker, Emmett has reported and taught from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland and Nairobi. Her fiction work is the product of four decades of living and thinking about the dilemmas of women, technology, and impulse for cooperation and conflict in and around the Pacific Rim. She lives in the Eastern US with her husband and adores learning from her three clever and adorable grandchildren.