Zachary Mason

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.