i-Symbiote
The Erudite Saga
by M.J Hall
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Pub Date Jul 15 2020 | Archive Date Aug 25 2020
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Description
"The Last Samurai meets Blade Runner. In a time when anyone can be a technopath, he who controls data controls it all. Only one person can save us..."
After a year of mourning her father’s assassination in isolation, Áine Nishimura, a cybernetically enhanced double-amputee, receives an anonymous message that links his death to the Purge, a devastating web-based super-virus thought to have been orchestrated thirty years before by a dangerous group of cyber-criminals known as the Circle.
Immediately handing in her resignation with Interpol, she leaves London and returns to her native Tokyo to clear her father’s name. But she quickly becomes entangled with the Yakuza, the most feared organised crime syndicate on the planet and, face to face with the top boss himself, she dares to challenge what she believes is a web of deceit and conspiracy about her father.
What she hears next means she has a shocking choice to make: to allow humanity to be permanently digitally enslaved, or sacrifice thousands of innocent people as a message to an even greater power than the Yakuza.
With seconds to decide, will she honour her father’s wishes, or is the decision just too big for her to make?
i Symbiote is an origin story that can be read independently of the series.
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9798664942507 |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Cardyn B, Media/Journalist
Aine Nishimura's earliest memories start with a personal tragedy that alters the course of her life. The physical consequences of the trauma give her enhanced abilities, which help her in adulthood as a mercilessly effective Interpol agent, until the sudden, shocking murder of her father motivates her to resign. She needs answers, and she believes working outside the law will improve her odds of finding them before humanity implodes. With action occurring from the mid to late 21st century, i-Symbiote uses the science and technology of skycars, coding, algorithms, and digital addiction as a context for examining universal themes of free will, human connection, and how and by whom the greater good of society is defined and calculated.
During this turbulent time of a global health crisis and economic uncertainty in real life, Aine's story resonates as an action-packed philosophical thriller featuring powerful shadow groups on all sides of the law. It’s challenging to distinguish friends from foes. Ethical shadiness creates a compelling amalgamation of Matrix meets The Fugitive and Frankenstein as humans strive to build a Utopia. This first installment of the Erudite Saga sets high expectations for the next story.
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