Firebreak
Nicole Kornher-Stace
แแแ. 2021 ยท Simon and Schuster ยท แแแฎแ แแแแแ: Carlotta Brentan
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One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this โprofoundโฆresonantโ (NPR), all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing take on Ready Player One, with a heavy dose of Black Mirror.
Ready Player One meets Cyperpunk 2077 in this eerily familiar future.
โTwenty minutes to power curfew, and my kill counterโs stalled at eight hundred eighty-seven while Iโve been standing here like an idiot. My health bar is flashing ominously, but Iโm down to four heal patches, and I have to be smart.โ
New Liberty City, 2134.
Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the countryโs remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side.
Here, Mallory streams Stellaxisโs wargame, SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the gameโs rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Malโlooking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Malโs sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLifeโs developer, and puts her in the kind of danger sheโs only experienced through her avatar.
Author Kornher-Staceโs adult science fiction debutโFirebreakโis a โfight song in praise of fierce friendship and the strength to endureโ (Amal El-Mohtar, Hugo and Nebula Awardโwinning author of This Is How You Lose the Time War) loaded with ambitious challenges and a city to save.
Ready Player One meets Cyperpunk 2077 in this eerily familiar future.
โTwenty minutes to power curfew, and my kill counterโs stalled at eight hundred eighty-seven while Iโve been standing here like an idiot. My health bar is flashing ominously, but Iโm down to four heal patches, and I have to be smart.โ
New Liberty City, 2134.
Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the countryโs remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side.
Here, Mallory streams Stellaxisโs wargame, SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the gameโs rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Malโlooking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Malโs sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLifeโs developer, and puts her in the kind of danger sheโs only experienced through her avatar.
Author Kornher-Staceโs adult science fiction debutโFirebreakโis a โfight song in praise of fierce friendship and the strength to endureโ (Amal El-Mohtar, Hugo and Nebula Awardโwinning author of This Is How You Lose the Time War) loaded with ambitious challenges and a city to save.
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Nicole Kornher-Stace is the author of the Norton Award finalist Archivist Wasp and its sequel, Latchkey. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, and Fantasy Magazine, as well as many anthologies. She lives in New Paltz, New York, with her family. She can be found online at NicoleKornherStace.com, or on Twitter @WireWalking.
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