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Moped Army
In the world of 2277, a girl named Simone is caught between her rich entitlement culture friends in the upper city and the gangs of moped riders who roam and patrol the lower city. She must decide in which world she wants to truly live and survive.
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2006
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July 4, 2017
OK, been meaning to review this for a while. 'Bout time I did it.
I moved this to the front of my list after actually getting feedback from the author on my review for Little White Mouse. So, I picked it up from online (I missed it on shelves since MA didn't make it to my local stores on it's first run) and had a read through. Pretty solid stuff. I could make nitpicky science comments but I'll save it - this is a book review, not American Scientific. Suspension of disbelief is something I'm already WAY familiar with.
It's focused on one of the mega cities of Earth in the future. The rich and privileged live on the top level of the massive city construct the story is set in (which if I'm not mistaken is in many ways similar - if not the same place - to the city Loo meets Jake Armani in in LWM). Beneath the affluence of the upper city though are the tribes of the industrial class and the street gangs. The main character is Simone, born of the topside world. She's trapped in a relationship with the scion of a very powerful family. Too bad the guy is a Neanderthal (though everyone seems to think Chester is the poster child for normalcy). One night after a party proves too boring for Simone's boyfriend, they end up terrorizing and killing a street kid from the undercity. Simone is horrified, and as a means to make amends goes to the undercity herself to find out more about the denizens there. She encounters the Moped Army, the gang Chester terrorized, and begins to learn what life is like on the bottom of the city.
The tenor of the story is something that I think will appeal to the young more than the old, though I liked it enough myself and I'm no spring chicken. It has all of the rich versus poor, hi-tech versus low-life feel that I like from my reading, and of course it has the art style that I've come to identify with LWM.
I'd definitely recommend it for folks who like stories about culture clash and of course I advise it for fans of LWM and Paul Sizer. You'll probably have trouble finding it on shelves, but search in enough places online and you should be able to get a copy.
I moved this to the front of my list after actually getting feedback from the author on my review for Little White Mouse. So, I picked it up from online (I missed it on shelves since MA didn't make it to my local stores on it's first run) and had a read through. Pretty solid stuff. I could make nitpicky science comments but I'll save it - this is a book review, not American Scientific. Suspension of disbelief is something I'm already WAY familiar with.
It's focused on one of the mega cities of Earth in the future. The rich and privileged live on the top level of the massive city construct the story is set in (which if I'm not mistaken is in many ways similar - if not the same place - to the city Loo meets Jake Armani in in LWM). Beneath the affluence of the upper city though are the tribes of the industrial class and the street gangs. The main character is Simone, born of the topside world. She's trapped in a relationship with the scion of a very powerful family. Too bad the guy is a Neanderthal (though everyone seems to think Chester is the poster child for normalcy). One night after a party proves too boring for Simone's boyfriend, they end up terrorizing and killing a street kid from the undercity. Simone is horrified, and as a means to make amends goes to the undercity herself to find out more about the denizens there. She encounters the Moped Army, the gang Chester terrorized, and begins to learn what life is like on the bottom of the city.
The tenor of the story is something that I think will appeal to the young more than the old, though I liked it enough myself and I'm no spring chicken. It has all of the rich versus poor, hi-tech versus low-life feel that I like from my reading, and of course it has the art style that I've come to identify with LWM.
I'd definitely recommend it for folks who like stories about culture clash and of course I advise it for fans of LWM and Paul Sizer. You'll probably have trouble finding it on shelves, but search in enough places online and you should be able to get a copy.
December 4, 2024
Another one of those incredible reads that should be on Kindle and should have an animated series or film based off it. The imagery feels like something you’d see on television or in a video game.
September 22, 2008
I may not even rate this one. I finished it, but am not completely sure what I thought of it yet. Has the same idea of futuristic cities that FEED does, but this one is way in the future. I found it pretty unbelievable that people in the future would look so much like they do in the 21st century, and unfortunately the main character's headband annoyed me so much that it kept throwing me out of the story. Petty, but true.
March 28, 2012
Good story, cool graphics
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