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Pub Date Jan 15 2016 | Archive Date Jun 04 2016

Description

It's BLADE RUNNER meets Paolo Bacigalupi's THE WINDUP GIRL

OneWorld is a planet orbited by thousands of satellite cities, and home to 23 billion humans. A place where governments, police forces and law courts compete for business within a wholly privatised system; where murder, rape and torture are merely extra items on your insurance policy; where a corporation owns the license for time; and where scientific fact has been replaced by ‘consumer information’. In OneWorld, every product wirelessly links to the ‘grID’, and people spend most of their scheduled ‘waketime’ moving through various overlapping realities via their grID visors.

But now the precarious balance of OneWorld is tipping as the largest of the global corporations launches the next phase of networking: One Network, or ‘ON’. By the time Youren Cartouche, a copywriter working on the advertising campaign for ON, and Constantin Zann, an advanced bio-mechanical detective investigating the strange murder of a human girl, both uncover the truth, they will be fighting for their very existence within a reality disintegrating around them.

It's BLADE RUNNER meets Paolo Bacigalupi's THE WINDUP GIRL

OneWorld is a planet orbited by thousands of satellite cities, and home to 23 billion humans. A place where governments, police forces...


Advance Praise

"Definitely a book for "Blade Runner" fans. Puckridge comes out of the gate with just a fantastic first novel. Set in a future populated by both humans and "rooins" (androids), it is intelligent, extremely well-written, thought provoking, intricately woven, has fantastic well-developed characters, full of great plot twists and turns (especially the ending!) I could go on and on... Reads a lot like a film. I couldn't tear myself away from it. Highly recommended." 5/5 Faithe Steckfuss - netgalley reviewer

"Definitely a book for "Blade Runner" fans. Puckridge comes out of the gate with just a fantastic first novel. Set in a future populated by both humans and "rooins" (androids), it is intelligent...


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Featured Reviews

Sci-fi and fantasy fans will undoubtedly enjoy this mind-bending thriller, another winning book from Hague Publishing. The plot gave me a lot of food for thought, to be honest - at the risk of posting spoilers, the corporate ownership of everything, including time itself, seems like a harbinger of things to come for our society the way things are currently going. I really liked the main characters, Zann and Youren, one human, and one not - or is he? This is yet another area where the author is extrapolating on some current trains of thought, about what it means to be sentient, and how that intersects with a person's or being's rights. Now I'm getting rambly, sorry. Sufficient to say that I am still thinking about this book and that it made a real impression. If you liked movies like Minority Report and The Running Man, and recent TV shows like Almost Human (which I really enjoyed, and not just because it starred Karl Urban) and the BBC's Humans, you will enjoy this fast-paced sci-fi book.

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