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Free energy. Freedom of information. Freedom from need. These are the promises of the Nanetic Network, the great nexus of nanomachines that powers the entire Western world.
With the power of the Network, the KineSys Corporation have created a digital utopia, a society where every citizen lives with nanites in their bodies, in constant connection with the Network that offers them everything.
A world of all-encompassing security. A world free from conflict, free from poverty, free from disease. A world that has found all the answers.
Still there are those who question this perfect world. What of those people who are incompatible with the Network, deemed unfit for society and contained in great government-controlled compounds? What of the rumours surrounding the Corporation’s philanthropic mission in Africa, rumours that whisper of madness and death? And what of those researchers who dared to ask these questions, researchers who seem to have vanished completely, as if they never even existed?
Jaded academic Ethan Ryan finds out that asking questions is a dangerous occupation. When he crosses the Corporation, he is hurled into the dark underbelly of London. There, amongst society’s most desperate, he discovers the sinister truth about the Network.
Because in the end, there can be no such thing as free energy. And the dreadful human cost of the Network may prove to be more than the Corporation’s fragile utopia can bear.
A seething science-fiction thriller by Tom Battey.
With the power of the Network, the KineSys Corporation have created a digital utopia, a society where every citizen lives with nanites in their bodies, in constant connection with the Network that offers them everything.
A world of all-encompassing security. A world free from conflict, free from poverty, free from disease. A world that has found all the answers.
Still there are those who question this perfect world. What of those people who are incompatible with the Network, deemed unfit for society and contained in great government-controlled compounds? What of the rumours surrounding the Corporation’s philanthropic mission in Africa, rumours that whisper of madness and death? And what of those researchers who dared to ask these questions, researchers who seem to have vanished completely, as if they never even existed?
Jaded academic Ethan Ryan finds out that asking questions is a dangerous occupation. When he crosses the Corporation, he is hurled into the dark underbelly of London. There, amongst society’s most desperate, he discovers the sinister truth about the Network.
Because in the end, there can be no such thing as free energy. And the dreadful human cost of the Network may prove to be more than the Corporation’s fragile utopia can bear.
A seething science-fiction thriller by Tom Battey.
286 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 3, 2012
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