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Verity
In Verity, democracy has been eclipsed. Corporations have carved up the human colonies amongst themselves and now reign supreme. MynCorp dominates Earth by exploiting her most valuable resource – the human subconscious. Wiring together the minds of the poor provides limitless computing power, serving MynCorp’s multi-global agendas.
Humans are adapting to new paradigms – the elite face resurrection and reprogramming, the disenfranchised are enslaved and free thinkers become anti-corporate fugitives. The paranoid and punitive nature of the corporations corrodes ambivalence and creates a new breed of freedom fighters.
The status quo is disturbed when an ancient presence emerges from a universe touched by the computing network. Now alien races, rebel consciences, idealist spirits and enslaved souls must find a co-operative path, and convince MynCorp to save human existence. Along the way attraction, rebellion, violence, love and greed bond and repel the main characters.
Verity is the first part of a trilogy. The second and third novels lead the characters through the heart of the battle for survival and present the evolution of mankind into a post-corporate culture.
Humans are adapting to new paradigms – the elite face resurrection and reprogramming, the disenfranchised are enslaved and free thinkers become anti-corporate fugitives. The paranoid and punitive nature of the corporations corrodes ambivalence and creates a new breed of freedom fighters.
The status quo is disturbed when an ancient presence emerges from a universe touched by the computing network. Now alien races, rebel consciences, idealist spirits and enslaved souls must find a co-operative path, and convince MynCorp to save human existence. Along the way attraction, rebellion, violence, love and greed bond and repel the main characters.
Verity is the first part of a trilogy. The second and third novels lead the characters through the heart of the battle for survival and present the evolution of mankind into a post-corporate culture.
- GenresScience Fiction
290 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 18, 2013
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February 28, 2015
On the strength of this novel, Mark Bowman is destined to be forever compared to Alastair Reynolds and Peter F Hamilton. The comparison bears making - the writing is science driven and set in a future still broadly constrained by physics we understand today but allowing enough time for a few novelty elements to be added.
The future world is governed by a single corporation, MynCorp, and while there is a political thread to the story it is relatively minor compared to the central concept. Mex (the hero of sorts, a freelance hacker of a white (ish) hat sort) is employed by the state in the form of Julienne to track and help recover a missing Node. Nodes are people who are wired into a super-computing state (a bit Matrix but not really) and power MynCorp's business. What happen when a Node is freed from its captivity and what impact will this have on society. More than that, what is the deeper threat facing the human race?
Mark juggles some very interesting characters in a believable future with skill more commonly found in those with far more writing credit to their names. It isn't perfect (perhaps) but it is very good. Roll on the second book!
The future world is governed by a single corporation, MynCorp, and while there is a political thread to the story it is relatively minor compared to the central concept. Mex (the hero of sorts, a freelance hacker of a white (ish) hat sort) is employed by the state in the form of Julienne to track and help recover a missing Node. Nodes are people who are wired into a super-computing state (a bit Matrix but not really) and power MynCorp's business. What happen when a Node is freed from its captivity and what impact will this have on society. More than that, what is the deeper threat facing the human race?
Mark juggles some very interesting characters in a believable future with skill more commonly found in those with far more writing credit to their names. It isn't perfect (perhaps) but it is very good. Roll on the second book!
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