Paradigm - Softcover

Stringer, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482346540 ISBN 13: 9781482346541

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

2014 Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Medalist!

Sam Cooper is seventeen. He spends his days exploring the open roads of the great American West, surviving by trading small kitchen appliances for food. Life is pretty good, but post-collapse America is a hard place to survive, even for someone with Sam’s wit and charm. His is a world controlled by corporate, municipal, and township tribalism with a contaminated yellow sky and street corner kiosks that offer digital self-medication.

As Bakersfield readies for war to protect its meager oil reserves, whack-job scientists whose qualifications consist of hand-me-down knowledge go on a cloning spree, while Sam tries to find out how his intentionally designed human enhancements are tied to an all pervasive artificial intelligence. His journey through the eco-ruins brings him face to face with corporate shock troops, young marauders who grow no older than 18, designer drugs, an argumentative best friend, and romance in a violent wasteland, all set to the gutteral roar of Sam’s pavement pounding ’68 Pontiac GTO.

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Reseña del editor

“If I ask you to do something, will you do it?” “Maybe.” “Maybe?” “Well, I don’t know what it is yet. But I’m guessing that death is the alternative, so I’m prepared to be reasonable.” Sam Cooper is seventeen. He drives a cherry red 1968 GTO that he won on a bet, and spends his days exploring the open roads of the great American West. He should be living the teenage dream, but post-collapse America is a hard place to survive. The United States is long dead, basic resources are getting scarcer, and no one on Earth has seen the stars since before he was born. Vast tracts of the country are now empty as people huddle together for safety. In all this chaos, Sam has survived on his wits and occasional luck. But a visit to the walled and prosperous Century City results in a split-second decision that changes everything. Soon Sam is on the run from the ruthless Carolyn Bast, and by something much more dangerous: MUTHA—a powerful artificial entity that has been watching and waiting for Sam’s return from the barren outlands. Sam unknowingly carries the key to something MUTHA can’t live without, something so dangerous that others are willing to kill him, or worse, to ensure that the great plex never possesses it. Sam can’t stay one step ahead of them forever. His only hope is to unravel the secrets of his peculiar past and awaken the incredible power that sleeps within—because even in his beloved GTO, without the truth, Sam will never succeed in outracing the nightmare to come.

Biografía del autor

Helen Stringer grew up in Liverpool, England, and currently lives in Northern California. Here in the U.S., she studied film, winning several student film awards, and was a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies. She is the author of "Spellbinder "and "The Midnight Gate".

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1482346540
• ISBN 13: 9781482346541
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396
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