Zachary Mason

Zachary Mason (born 1974) is a computer scientist and novelist.[1] He wrote the New York Times bestselling[2] The Lost Books of the Odyssey (2007; revised edition 2010), a variation on Homer, and Void Star (2017), a science fiction novel about artificial intelligence. In 2018, he published Metamorphica, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.[3]

Zachary Mason
Born1974 (age 48–49)
United States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction

Mason grew up in Silicon Valley, attended Bard College at Simon's Rock, and received a doctorate from Brandeis University, publishing his thesis A computational, corpus-based metaphor extraction system in 2002.[4] He works for a Silicon Valley startup.

References
  1. Rohter, Larry (February 9, 2010). "A Calculus of Writing, Applied to a Classic". The New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
  2. "The Lost Books of the Odyssey | Zachary Mason | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  3. Haynes, Natalie (18 October 2018). "Metamorphica by Zachary Mason review – mish-mash of Graeco-Roman myth". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  4. Mason, Zachary (2002). A computational, corpus-based metaphor extraction system. Brandeis University.


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