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March 12, 2026
Killswitch Protocol cuts to the synthetic heart of modern society, tearing apart the foundations of capitalism and corporate control with cybernetic swagger. From one skillful sentence to the next, Kuhn will make you cry from the weight of her characters’ emotional turmoil AND raise your mech-enhanced fist to rage against the machine. This is rebellious cyberpunk at its best—and it’s about time we burn the fucking system to the ground.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Capitalism begs us to let our lives be defined solely by the value we produce, and what if our society truly embraced that? What would that world look like?
Killswitch Protocol is a masterful cyberpunk novel that imagines that world. And like the best of the genre, it critiques the modern condition specifically and broadly. Brain chips, body augmentation, class divide, a pseudo-religious text that defines the society - Kuhn does the work of picking apart our world, turning the dial up, and showing it for the horror it is.
She also doesn't miss showing the traps and pitfalls of revolution. How we need to consider what comes next before we tear it all down. How hard it is to change the world and actually create a better one. These are conversations we desperately need to be having, and it thrills me everytime I see them in popular media.
And Kuhn manages to do all that with characters you'll fall for, whose turmoil you'll really feel. The emotional punches of this book land hard. I'm just glad she didn't hurt the cat.
I knew I would love this book from it's opening scenes - a joyous, corporate celebration as a corpse is lit ablaze - and it didn't disappoint. Fantastic work!
Killswitch Protocol is a masterful cyberpunk novel that imagines that world. And like the best of the genre, it critiques the modern condition specifically and broadly. Brain chips, body augmentation, class divide, a pseudo-religious text that defines the society - Kuhn does the work of picking apart our world, turning the dial up, and showing it for the horror it is.
She also doesn't miss showing the traps and pitfalls of revolution. How we need to consider what comes next before we tear it all down. How hard it is to change the world and actually create a better one. These are conversations we desperately need to be having, and it thrills me everytime I see them in popular media.
And Kuhn manages to do all that with characters you'll fall for, whose turmoil you'll really feel. The emotional punches of this book land hard. I'm just glad she didn't hurt the cat.
I knew I would love this book from it's opening scenes - a joyous, corporate celebration as a corpse is lit ablaze - and it didn't disappoint. Fantastic work!
Review of advance copy received from Author
Kuhn nails the cyberpunk genre with all the political commentary, moral dilemmas, and neon you could ask for. Not only is this an excellent thriller and mystery, it is full of thought-provoking moments that keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. Who deserves to live in this world? Read and find out the price of a Killswitch.
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