Gamechanger
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4.0 • 6 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In a world rising from the ashes of global disaster, one woman must navigate a web of intrigue to uncover the truth behind a controversial figure.
First there was the Setback.
Then came the Clawback.
Now we thrive.
Rubi Whiting, a member of the Bounceback Generation raised free from the troubles of the late twenty-first century, works as a public defender helping individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox, a firebrand who has made a name for himself as a naysayer.
But there's more to Luce than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi must uncover why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is determined to stop the planet's recovery.
In Gamechanger, award-winning author L. X. Beckett weaves a thrilling tale of a near-future world, blending elements of cyberpunk and alien contact in a story featuring diverse characters and artificial intelligence. This thought-provoking Neuromancer meets Star Trek sci-fi adventure will keep you riveted until the very end.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As this exuberant, exciting near-future yarn keeps reinventing itself, the action gets wilder and the scope wider, until the future of humankind is at stake. Though the Clawback project is beginning to rejuvenate an ecologically ruined Earth, public responsibilities are still unsettled and fluid. Cherub "Rubi" Whiting, a popular star of elaborate multiplayer virtual reality games, is excited to become a lawyer, but her first client, Luciano Pox, turns out to be difficult and dangerous. Besides being an anti-restoration terrorist, Luciano could be a renegade AI, the dread superhuman Singularity, or an advance scout for an invasion fleet from Proxima Centauri. Meanwhile, Rubi's father is on an obsessive hunt for the ancient oligarchs who survived Earth's devastation and are plotting to grab power again, and Gimlet Barnes, Rubi's rival and potential lover, is coping with her nine-year-old daughter going on a mission for the Department of Preadolescent Affairs. Each new chapter adds a different viewpoint and further information that upends reader expectations, stirring the plot in startling and wonderful ways. This delightful pinball machine of a book recalls the whiz-bang joy and gleeful innovation of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
