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Thinkersphere #2
Atcode: A techno-crime thriller
Detective Oliver Braddon's investigation into an apparent suicide leads him to a powerful media mogul and a mission into the unknown. Is he the killer?
In this alarming vision of the near-future, everyone’s thoughts are shared on social media. With privacy consigned to history, a new breed of celebrity influences billions.
Just who controls who?
A gritty, neo-noir delving into a conflict between those connected and those who keep their secrets.
In this alarming vision of the near-future, everyone’s thoughts are shared on social media. With privacy consigned to history, a new breed of celebrity influences billions.
Just who controls who?
A gritty, neo-noir delving into a conflict between those connected and those who keep their secrets.
344 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 7, 2019
3 people want to read
About the author
David Wake
26 books15 followersDavid Wake started as a playwright, taking shows to London and the Edinburgh Fringe, and winning awards (and drinking lager out of one piece of silverware at the celebratory curry).
He completed an MA in Writing at Birmingham City University, co-edited the anthology and received that year's screenwriting award.
His novels cover SF, steampunk and more. He has two series, the Derring-Do Club adventures, the Thinkersphere near-future police procedurals and stand-alone ranging from samurai revenge thriller, political satire pub crawl and a cosy mystery.
He co-founded and co-runs New Street Authors, an indie publishing collective based in Birmingham, UK. He's the inventor of the drabble, which are stories of exactly 100 words.
If you'd like to know more, please get in touch.
He completed an MA in Writing at Birmingham City University, co-edited the anthology and received that year's screenwriting award.
His novels cover SF, steampunk and more. He has two series, the Derring-Do Club adventures, the Thinkersphere near-future police procedurals and stand-alone ranging from samurai revenge thriller, political satire pub crawl and a cosy mystery.
He co-founded and co-runs New Street Authors, an indie publishing collective based in Birmingham, UK. He's the inventor of the drabble, which are stories of exactly 100 words.
If you'd like to know more, please get in touch.
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April 2, 2025
The Thinkersphere is the ulimate social network, to which people are connected by their thoughts, and the only way to obtain privacy is to get drunk, or sit in a Faraday cage. It's so ubquitous that every interaction with technology or other people is mediated by it.
Book 1 - HashTag - explored the effect of this on many aspects of everyday life. This entry focuses on billionaires, their celebrity influencers, and the mutual hatred between the connected and the unconnected. It starts quietly, but develops into a roller coaster of amnesia, in which the hapless protagonist detective has increasingly no idea what's going on.
David Wake is one of best writers of near-future SF at the moment. Given that a certain real billionaire already has the technology to enable brain-computer interactions, and openly wants everyone to have one, this future may be nearer than we think. Read it while it's still science fiction.
Book 1 - HashTag - explored the effect of this on many aspects of everyday life. This entry focuses on billionaires, their celebrity influencers, and the mutual hatred between the connected and the unconnected. It starts quietly, but develops into a roller coaster of amnesia, in which the hapless protagonist detective has increasingly no idea what's going on.
David Wake is one of best writers of near-future SF at the moment. Given that a certain real billionaire already has the technology to enable brain-computer interactions, and openly wants everyone to have one, this future may be nearer than we think. Read it while it's still science fiction.
July 7, 2019
An interesting return to the world of Hagtag. Darker in tone than the previous book, which fits with our now slightly older Braddon's move from new and enthusiastic PC to somewhat more careworn Detective, there's a Scandi-noir feel to this one and, although complete in itself, I'm looking forward to seeing where this will go in the next one.
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