Thunderstruck

by Alie Summers, Randall Andrews (Editor), Karen Brosinsky (Illustrator)

In Eidolon, capitalism and socialism work in parallel.  Those who value personal freedoms, and wealth live as Citizens of the city streets.  Those who need more help or choose to enjoy their lives rather than struggle to keep up live in the 156 floor Central Services Tower at the center of the city as Residents.  They have it all, but can separate be equal?Quiet Arlo wants nothing but a peaceful life in the Tower and a way out of the mandatory conscription all 18 year olds, Citizen and Resident alike face.  A lost bet forces him out of his home on the 47th floor and out into the streets of Eidolon for the first time since he was removed from his family, where he sees the difference between the two systems as well as the growing Resistance movement firsthand. An electric charge from a cattle prod sends Arlo's predictable life into chaos.. The neural implant he didn't know he had disrupts releasing memories and a voice trapped by technology. Speech too garbled to understand, patrol dumps him in the arms of the Deaf and NonVerbal  community, who teach him to use his hands to speak. His implant continues to misbehave, plaguing him with images of people he doesn't know and feelings he never learned to process. Confused and volatile, he goes in search of the person he could have been but finds the rebel he always was, poised for the oncoming revolution. 

258 pages, Paperback

Published February 14, 2019