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Sugar: a boy, a girl, and the the end of the world
The rich live behind The Wall, protected by heavily-armed security, insulated by wealth and privilege from reality. Outside the wall almost 80% of the population is addicted to the super-opioid street drug called Sugar, bringing North American society to its knees. Bad as things beyond the wall 18-year-old Jesse is making it work, working for a major dealer inside, running a teenage crew of street dealers, caring for his addicted father, and dreaming of finding a way out to something better. Then he met Phaedra and everything went to hell ... Smart, shocking, sexy - Sugar is Romeo and Juliet in the rubble of a dystopian future.
266 pages, Paperback
Published May 29, 2019
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About the author
John Auber Armstrong
6 books21 followersI was born and raised in Little Italy on the East Side of Vancouver. In my teens we moved to the small town of White Rock on the US border and I met Art Bergmann, which led to 15 years of playing music for a living and generally acting in a shameful and often legally actionable manner.
I retired from the stage in my early 30s and began writing. For 15 years I was a reporter and columnist for the Vancouver Sun, covering crime, politics, theatre, books, music, and science.
In 2001 I left the paper to write full-time and have published four books since, with six more in varying stages of pre-publication.
Guilty of Everything, a memoir of the Vancouver punk scene, is still in pre-production as a feature film, forever.
In 2017 i published A Series of Dogs, a remembrance of the dogs in my life,
Coming sometime in the next year or two are The Circle of St. George, a fantasy set in WW2 Britain.
Mob Rule, an alt-history satire, and Sugar, a dystopian- future drug novel.
Schadenfreude, in which alien tourists come to Earth to witness our atrocities and horrors. (Yeah, that will shoot to the top of the charts ...... but what are you gonna do? You write what you write, and you see what happens.)
Currently finishing up Plague House: The Haunting of Fairacres, a supernatural story based on true events, and a final non-fiction book - The back Nine: A Gentleman's Guide to Growing Old.
Modernettes have an album coming out this year called New maps of Hell - yes, a nod to the great Kingsley Amis
I retired from the stage in my early 30s and began writing. For 15 years I was a reporter and columnist for the Vancouver Sun, covering crime, politics, theatre, books, music, and science.
In 2001 I left the paper to write full-time and have published four books since, with six more in varying stages of pre-publication.
Guilty of Everything, a memoir of the Vancouver punk scene, is still in pre-production as a feature film, forever.
In 2017 i published A Series of Dogs, a remembrance of the dogs in my life,
Coming sometime in the next year or two are The Circle of St. George, a fantasy set in WW2 Britain.
Mob Rule, an alt-history satire, and Sugar, a dystopian- future drug novel.
Schadenfreude, in which alien tourists come to Earth to witness our atrocities and horrors. (Yeah, that will shoot to the top of the charts ...... but what are you gonna do? You write what you write, and you see what happens.)
Currently finishing up Plague House: The Haunting of Fairacres, a supernatural story based on true events, and a final non-fiction book - The back Nine: A Gentleman's Guide to Growing Old.
Modernettes have an album coming out this year called New maps of Hell - yes, a nod to the great Kingsley Amis
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