Static: Androids, Cyborgs, War, & a Homicidal Baboon

by M.D. Thalmann

The planet is wrecked: all circuitry fried in electromagnetic storms the Elders used to defeat the Purifiers. Pockets of civilization like Halloran’s remain but savages rule. Doubting his own mortality, Halloran fights his way through in search of the other—His binary—only to find her living with them, Queen of the savages. He’ll have to force himself to remember a past he never lived and uncover his own innate abilities to bring their people together, earning his seat at the throne.

330 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 15, 2017

About the author

M.D. (Michael Dirk) Thalmann, a novelist and freelance journalist specializing in satire and science fiction, lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife, children, and ornery cats, reads too much and sleeps too little. He has a couple dogs, too, but doesn’t like to mention them due to the slippers one of them ate in 2009, which neither has yet fessed up to. He is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas and has been living in the desert since 2004 when he took the novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas entirely too serious and moved on a lark. He has been into journalism in one fashion or another and writing fiction and so on since he was ten years old or so and has gotten at least 20% better since that time. Today M.D. writes freelance and does columns for a few magazines here and there while working on his various novels and cursing his cats.

M.D. Thalmann is influenced by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Philip K. Dick, Carl Hiaasen, and (obviously) Hunter S. Thompson. His debut novel, The 13 Lives of a Television Repair Man, is available through SpaceDock Publishing, and his next, Static-Redux, a satirical science fiction/ space opera, is slotted for release in early 2017. Find his work at www.mdthalmann.com

Reviews

[Dave-Brendon Burgh · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the craziest, coolest rides I've ever been on.

You've got God as a character (while also fulfilling one other interesting role), geneticists and the cutting edge (and way past it), SF that doesn't boil your mind while still being interesting, and characters that are both naive and compelling, powerful and tragically weak.

You'll step into a world massively changed by a world-wide catastrophe involving nanotech, robots, androids, one weird baboon, and creepy board members. You'll meet face-wearing barbarians, too.

How does it all fit together? Not telling - that you'll have to read for yourself. But it does all fit together - and many, many times you'll be cursing the author, because often what was in your mouth (or even in your nose) will be forcefully expelled by sudden laughter.

This is a fast-paced, fun and ultimately awesome SF ride - I haven't read anything quite like it before, and I'm looking forward to every book we'll get from this author. Highly recommended!