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PRINTED MTL
Author Kling, Marc-Uwe, author.

Title Qualityland / Marc-Uwe Kling ; translated from the German into English by Jamie Lee Searle.

Publisher New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Ellsworth PL Fiction  SF Kli    AVAILABLE  
 Goodall Adult Fiction  F    TEMPORARY CLOSURE  
 LewPL Fiction - Sci-Fi  F Sci-Fi Kling,M    AVAILABLE  
 Lithgow PL Fiction  FIC KLING    AVAILABLE  
 Old Town SciFi/Fantasy  FIC KLING, M    AVAILABLE  
 Rice PL Fiction  F Kling    AVAILABLE  
 Rockland PL Fiction  FIC KLING    AVAILABLE  
 Walker ML Adult Fiction  Kling    AVAILABLE  
Edition First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Physical Description 339 pages ; 24 cm.
Note "A novel" -- Cover.
Summary Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it. In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself.
Subject Artificial intelligence -- Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Science fiction.
Alt Author Romanelli, Jamie Searle, translator.
Alternate Title Quality land
Qualityland. English.