Books like Void Star by Zachary Mason

In a future where the seas have risen and the central latitudes of San Francisco are deserted, weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudes of the poor. Irina, though not wealthy, possesses an artificial memory that grants her perfect recall, allowing her to mediate between her employers and their complex, opaque AIs. Her work pays enough for yearly trips to the Mayo Clinic to prevent her from aging. In contrast, Kern—one of many refugees living in drone‑built favelas on the city’s outskirts—lives like a monk, training in martial arts, and survives as a thief and enforcer. Thales, a mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan, has fled to L.A. after an attack that left him crippled and his father dead. Their lives intersect when Irina discovers a secret reflected on a laptop screen in an employer’s eyeglasses, Kern steals from the wrong target, and a ragged stranger confronts Thales, demanding to know how much he can remember. Drawn together by unseen forces, the trio learns that none of them are truly safe.

First publish date: 2017