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Thinkersphere #1
Hashtag: A techno-crime thriller
Think Black Mirror with a Scandi-crime feel. In this alarming vision of the future, even your most spontaneous thoughts are shared on global social media. With privacy consigned to history, pre-mediated crime is dead and buried. When Detective Oliver Braddon stumbles upon an unknown corpse, he's plunged into an investigation to track down a murderer who can kill without thinking.A gritty, dystopian neo-noir that poses uncomfortable questions about our obsession with social media and presents a mind-bending picture of what life might be like when your very thoughts are no longer your own.
302 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 19, 2019
5 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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July 10, 2021
This is a scary look into our future that could easily become reality. Fitted with an iBrow, humans no longer need to talk or write to communicate - they can just use thought. Crime rates are down, as people are arrested just for thinking about committing a crime - until Detective Oliver Braddon comes across an unidentifiable corpse. His investigation leads him down a nightmarish rabbit hole he might never escape from.
An interesting read that will make you think. Personally, I hope humankind doesn't evolve into anything like this!
An interesting read that will make you think. Personally, I hope humankind doesn't evolve into anything like this!
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