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When Winter Calls
Research is the Door to Tomorrow.
Welcome to Caldera, the corporate enclave in international waters where cutting-edge research meets employee utopia. As Sentivue Industries prepares their new flagship product – a neural interface that connects the user to the collective knowledge of the ages – Jared Elsworth is tasked with ensuring a smooth and successful launch.
But with winter setting in and many of its residents preparing to leave, something doesn’t seem right. People are acting strangely, and the citycorp begins to take on a much darker and more violent tone. Is the interface causing the changes, or is somebody pulling the strings? When isolation is the key to corporate sovereignty, how do you overcome a sinister force that has taken control?
Welcome to Caldera, the corporate enclave in international waters where cutting-edge research meets employee utopia. As Sentivue Industries prepares their new flagship product – a neural interface that connects the user to the collective knowledge of the ages – Jared Elsworth is tasked with ensuring a smooth and successful launch.
But with winter setting in and many of its residents preparing to leave, something doesn’t seem right. People are acting strangely, and the citycorp begins to take on a much darker and more violent tone. Is the interface causing the changes, or is somebody pulling the strings? When isolation is the key to corporate sovereignty, how do you overcome a sinister force that has taken control?
- GenresScience Fiction
384 pages, Paperback
First published August 11, 2015
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About the author
Robert Gordon
1 book14 followersRobert A. Gordon is an anthropologist who has been writing about the ethics of future technology for the past decade. Dedicating his professional career to engaging public discourse on ethics and the social purpose of business, he has consistently worked on themes of corporate power, governance and innovation. When Winter Calls is his debut novel, a science fiction thriller that explores the boundaries of our personal and collective identities in an ever-changing world.
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March 27, 2018
Apalling. Will be used as example in Writing classes
Interesting premise completely botched by extremeky lousy writing. As in, never worse.
This author must be used in writing in bullet points, that's how the novel develops. Most sentences are missing pronouns, sometimes even verbs.
You get jarred from one scene to the next with no transition or continuity.
If zero star was available, that's what I would have awarded.
Interesting premise completely botched by extremeky lousy writing. As in, never worse.
This author must be used in writing in bullet points, that's how the novel develops. Most sentences are missing pronouns, sometimes even verbs.
You get jarred from one scene to the next with no transition or continuity.
If zero star was available, that's what I would have awarded.
September 13, 2015
Science fiction doesn’t always do a good job of predicting the future. But that’s not its job. Like any fiction worth its salt, it holds a mirror up to the culture in which it’s produced. Science fiction takes our aspirations as well as our anxieties, inflates them and grafts them onto a near or distant future or a galaxy far far away. Good science fiction says to us: this is where were heading, do we really want to continue down this path?
When the book opens we find ourselves speeding towards Caldera--the citycorp of Sentivue Industries where in international waters the multinational can pursue its groundbreaking research far from the prying eyes of competing firms as well as the regulatory oversight of nation states. Jared Elsworth is there to roll out the marketing strategy for Sentivue’s newest product, a neural interface which promises to usher in a new dawn for humanity. However, this brave new world takes a decidedly dystopian turn.
‘There is no utopia here. The project of human progress had failed dismally to stop this hell from emerging. Everything they had witnessed stood as an icon to depravity, a regression back to the primal state of kill or be killed. All of it coming from the seed of technological brilliance, of a new opportunity that promised so much and yet proved a false prophet delivering only pain and suffering.’
When the book opens we find ourselves speeding towards Caldera--the citycorp of Sentivue Industries where in international waters the multinational can pursue its groundbreaking research far from the prying eyes of competing firms as well as the regulatory oversight of nation states. Jared Elsworth is there to roll out the marketing strategy for Sentivue’s newest product, a neural interface which promises to usher in a new dawn for humanity. However, this brave new world takes a decidedly dystopian turn.
‘There is no utopia here. The project of human progress had failed dismally to stop this hell from emerging. Everything they had witnessed stood as an icon to depravity, a regression back to the primal state of kill or be killed. All of it coming from the seed of technological brilliance, of a new opportunity that promised so much and yet proved a false prophet delivering only pain and suffering.’
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