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Let's Destroy Investutech
Believe it or not, a multi-planetary conglomerate controls humanity. Investutech is its name, and the company's applied research and product development methods would petrify even the maddest of madmen.
To Investutech, no scientific atrocity is too horrific in the pursuit of ultimate profit. In fact, sin is an inapplicable concept.
Only the Flux Facers, a group of face-shifting patriots, are dedicated to overthrowing biggest business. Utilizing every means at their disposal, including body hijacking, they embark on an Investutech-overthrowing mission that reaches from Earth all the way to the afterlife.
This special Necro Publications release includes five bonus Investutech stories, comprising decades of sacrilegious scientific innovation.
To Investutech, no scientific atrocity is too horrific in the pursuit of ultimate profit. In fact, sin is an inapplicable concept.
Only the Flux Facers, a group of face-shifting patriots, are dedicated to overthrowing biggest business. Utilizing every means at their disposal, including body hijacking, they embark on an Investutech-overthrowing mission that reaches from Earth all the way to the afterlife.
This special Necro Publications release includes five bonus Investutech stories, comprising decades of sacrilegious scientific innovation.
- GenresHorror
356 pages, Paperback
First published July 11, 2016
124 people want to read
About the author
Jeremy Thompson
34 books62 followersJeremy Thompson is the indie horror fictionist whose mind and fingers united to birth The Phantom Cabinet, Let's Destroy Investutech, Victor Dickens and the Silent Minority, The Land of Broken Sky, Outréverse, and Vortex Era. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 2 and 4, Into the Darkness Volume 1, DarkFuse, Journal of Experimental Fiction, This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck With, and Brewtality, and been collected in Sweet Chuckling Morbidity, A Carcass of Genre, and Toby Chalmers Commits “Career” Suicide: The Complete Saga. A San Diego State University graduate, Jeremy resides in Oceanside, California.
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January 11, 2017
I won a copy of this book in a goodreads giveaway late summer 2016. Due to my flooding, home moving, my wedding, and a new job it has taken me a long time to finish this book. But here it is, at long last, my review.
***DISCLAIMER***
This review will likely have a few spoilers in it. Just a heads up.
The book starts with a few short stories to set the scene for the stories universe. In a few words "holy wait what!?" is the best way to describe the world the story is set in. These go from zombies and virtual reality job interviews to depressing time reversal to one of the stories main characters: Amadeus "the toyman" Wilson. My initial reaction to Amadeus was recalling the image of the guy from the Robot Chicken intro, and if you understand the reference and read the book you might understand the connection.
Yet this man takes unethical experimentation to whole new levels throughout the entire story. The bulk of the story is from the eye of a basically nameless protagonist and his misadventures with the Face Fluxers and their quest to end Investutech. Now the Face Fluxers face manipulation tech specifically reminds me alot of the music video by Starset and their recently released video for their song "Monster". But I digress.
The characters in the book show signs of social disconnection. Like the Be-You hotline man Cataluna repeatedly talks about how he hates himself and prefers his online presence. Which is a current issue that people can adopt an ulterior personality in an online setting because you are anonymous and can be anyone. But by the end of the book nothing changed at all, the whole revolution ended up with everyone just pocketing tech and running off.
When everything turned to religion and how every god can exist and be true I personally lost some of my interest. That's just me though, many might find the angle interesting and it was a curious method used. But it just made me go "meh".
Now I was most fascinated by the last of the short stories, the intro of Professor Pandora. That short story was the most fascinating to me. Pandora's backstory reminded me f a few creepypastas I've read and was very entertained with his dialogue and interactions with the toyman. Even more entertaining was "the traveler" who Pandora inhabited and would loose memory of just how he had gotten into these crazy locations and his misadventures of tumbling through the mansion. I wanted to see more of him and the places he has been, specifically "the House of Eternal October". I was truly sad to see him go, but the show must go on.
All in all, a very well written story with some uniquely odd characters. The technological innovations mentioned are enough to make your head spin. I am usually not as in to such books, but this was an easy read and an interesting story. Well worth the read.
***DISCLAIMER***
This review will likely have a few spoilers in it. Just a heads up.
The book starts with a few short stories to set the scene for the stories universe. In a few words "holy wait what!?" is the best way to describe the world the story is set in. These go from zombies and virtual reality job interviews to depressing time reversal to one of the stories main characters: Amadeus "the toyman" Wilson. My initial reaction to Amadeus was recalling the image of the guy from the Robot Chicken intro, and if you understand the reference and read the book you might understand the connection.
Yet this man takes unethical experimentation to whole new levels throughout the entire story. The bulk of the story is from the eye of a basically nameless protagonist and his misadventures with the Face Fluxers and their quest to end Investutech. Now the Face Fluxers face manipulation tech specifically reminds me alot of the music video by Starset and their recently released video for their song "Monster". But I digress.
The characters in the book show signs of social disconnection. Like the Be-You hotline man Cataluna repeatedly talks about how he hates himself and prefers his online presence. Which is a current issue that people can adopt an ulterior personality in an online setting because you are anonymous and can be anyone. But by the end of the book nothing changed at all, the whole revolution ended up with everyone just pocketing tech and running off.
When everything turned to religion and how every god can exist and be true I personally lost some of my interest. That's just me though, many might find the angle interesting and it was a curious method used. But it just made me go "meh".
Now I was most fascinated by the last of the short stories, the intro of Professor Pandora. That short story was the most fascinating to me. Pandora's backstory reminded me f a few creepypastas I've read and was very entertained with his dialogue and interactions with the toyman. Even more entertaining was "the traveler" who Pandora inhabited and would loose memory of just how he had gotten into these crazy locations and his misadventures of tumbling through the mansion. I wanted to see more of him and the places he has been, specifically "the House of Eternal October". I was truly sad to see him go, but the show must go on.
All in all, a very well written story with some uniquely odd characters. The technological innovations mentioned are enough to make your head spin. I am usually not as in to such books, but this was an easy read and an interesting story. Well worth the read.
November 6, 2016
I am a very hard person to please when it comes to horror or books in general. This book grabbed my attention and managed to hold it from the moment I picked it up. It was one of those rare books I just fell into and found myself wanting to stay in, I hated to see it end. I will be recommending it to my friends and my local library for purchase.
I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway !
I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway !
October 29, 2016
Great book
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