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Zachary Mason (born 1974) is an American computer scientist and novelist. He wrote the New York Times bestselling 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.

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. 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.

External links

• "The Machine Edda," by Zachary Mason in Guernica - April 26, 2008
• A.I., the Simulated Annealing Search, and The Lost Books of the Odyssey: An Interview with Zachary Mason - Washington City Paper, Mar. 4, 2010
• The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story by Zachary Mason in The Paris Review - Dec. 20, 2018

• Brandeis University alumni
• 1974 births
• Living people
• Bard College alumni
• Writers from California
• American male novelists
• 21st-century American novelists
• 21st-century American male writers
• American computer scientists