MOME
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Publisher Description
Tired of all the scags and his trigger-happy coworkers, Service Officer Martinex is relieved to be assigned a series of homicides. When none of the evidence points to anything physical, his investigation reveals a connection to two physicists, Alistair McCary and Davan Yazdani, who have made a revolutionary discovery of a powerful anomaly. Elsewhere, this anomaly drives untested beta that victimizes 12-year-old Joel Specchio, drawing him and the people around him into a conspiracy linked to the murders. All must untangle this web of deception to find out who or what the killers are, and stop them before they execute their world-dominating agenda.
Customer Reviews
Back to the Future
In the pages of Randall Barnes' novel I read "passion-filled protagonists: each flirting with disaster, each forging their own way, each jam-packed with romance." However, these are pages in a novel the wispy sylph Natalie reads before her own life frays, becoming insensible. Her romance-starved friends, the scientists Davan and Alistair, try to make sense of a new and mind--and lab--shaking discovery. A pair of precocious pre-teen boys have got themselves into trouble with a tech called the 'mingle.' And away cross town, a cop, himself dabbling in an affair of the heart, investigates dead bodies, trying to make sense of non-sensical evidence.
Mome has no single protagonist; there is only the handful of people, some of which who know each other, some unaware of the others, all trying to understand what is going wrong. And the antagonist is hidden from us. An individual? A rogue foundation, a faceless corporation? Rogue tech? Who can you trust? In this future, half the people you meet are partially or totally synthetic, AI, "reps.”
These are everyday lives--employment, budgets, protocols, kids, quantum physics--of real people trying to navigate a technology-addled existance in the big city that suddenly has become "zerty." In his debut novel Barnes takes pleasure in unwinding this dilemma, and transports us to a satisfying end.