Zachary Mason
Zachary Mason (born 1974) is a 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.