Fluxton

by Timothy Koch

Two young people resist the Social Machine across three steampunk city-states surrounded by post-petroleum apocalypse wastelands. Fluxton is the great Capital, populated with citizens whose only goal is to maintain the Trintico Corporate Society, filled with beautiful houses of radiant crystal, or that's what Shevi and Jackson have always been told. Their unlikely entry into the shareholder citizenry of Fluxton reveals another means by which the Social Machine has run amok. While Shevi tries to fit in and find a place in the strange reality of the Capital, Jackson revolutionizes the racing machines that squander the power the walkers of I Town produce. Inadvertently, they collapse the structure that supports the Social Machine and bring all of Trintico to a disastrous heap.

512 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

Timothy Koch was born in Little Rock. He grew up in north central Arkansas where he got his first library card from the Independence County Library in Batesville and became a lover of books immediately. Although he didn't finish high school, he did manage to get a GED and graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Architecture with honors. After college he stayed in Fayetteville where he writes and does architectural drafting. He enjoys running, cooking, and playing cards and board games with his wife and three children.