| Zachary Mason | |
| Birth Place: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Fiction |
Zachary Mason (born 1974) is an American 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]
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.