Future's Orphans

ISBN-13: 9781516952830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 366 str.

A. K. Alliss; Cari a. Smith; Anni Houavila

Opis

Cass has a problem and it's all of her own making. A disgraced Journalist sitting on what could be the biggest story of her non-existent career, if she can only survive it. Paco lives by his own moral code, one forged by a life lived on the streets. A code that is rapidly unraveling before his eyes. Ben fought in a war that could be neither won nor lost. Returning home, the war continues, but to which side does he now belong? A singular event has signified the "end" of the war on terror, in the subsequent financial collapse, PTSD runs rampant. A second great depression has compounded the ills of the world and violence, political corruption and ecological disaster loom. Cassidy Nolan is a disgraced journalist, writing freelance on the streets of Leviathan, a city state holding on to civilisation by a single thread. A slave to the medicated patches designed to combat a global condition, Nolan struggles with the way the world has become and the demons of her past. Unwittingly, she is about to uncover a deadly secret which could change everything. But will it be for the better? Paco is a street urchin. Violent, unreadable and immune to the dangerous path the world has traveled. A chance encounter with Nolan will see his meticulously constructed street code begin to spiral out of control. Ben Corinthian is an ex military contractor haunted by the horrors of the war. He has returned to a world that he struggles to find relevance in. In the pursuit to come back from the brink, will he lose sight of the higher stakes involved? Three orphans abandoned to a perilous and uncertain future created from today's headlines. Realistic and gritty, Future's Orphans draws inspiration from current events and questions not just the world we live in now, but also what could be. Inspired by the works of William Gibson, Bruce Stirling and Jack Womack, this speculative fiction, collapse-punk thriller looks at a society spiraling out of control through unflinching character portrayal and tightly focused writing.

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