The debut novel from highly regarded short-story author David Marusek, Counting Heads pushes the limits from the genre. Life in the year 2134 ‘s almost ideal, with nanotechnology and medical technology granting people near-immortality. However when Sam Harger is flagged like a terrorist, his effective wife dies within a airplane crash, and his daughter’s cryogenically freezing head becomes a sought-after award, Sam must battle to save lots of the people from a top secret cabal.