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Meeting Date: May 9, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Frisco Public Library
8000 Dallas Parkway
Level 2, Unconference Room
You can join online via Zoom at https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.c...
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Gonna be running a little late tonight. Got a meeting that ends at 7:30
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Hullo undead squad, I have been learning to salsa, so I’ll need to miss tomorrow’s book club… but I think I should be back for The Stardust Thief as I have already read 10 pages, thus committing myself to the task.
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Like everyone else she knows, Mallory is an orphan of the corporate war. As a child, she lost her parents, her home, and her entire building in an airstrike. As an adult, she lives in a cramped hotel room with eight other people, all of them working multiple jobs to try to afford water and make ends meet. And the job she’s best at is streaming a popular VR war game. The best part of the game isn’t killing enemy combatants, though—it’s catching in-game glimpses of SpecOps operatives, celebrity supersoldiers grown and owned by Stellaxis, the corporation that runs the America she lives in.
Until a chance encounter with a SpecOps operative in the game leads Mal to a horrifying discovery: the real-life operatives weren’t created by Stellaxis. They were kids, just like her, who lost everything in the war, and were stolen and augmented and tortured into becoming supersoldiers. The world worships them, but the world believes a lie.
The company controls every part of their lives, and defying them puts everything at risk—her water ration, her livelihood, her connectivity, her friends, her life—but she can’t just sit on the knowledge. She has to do something—even if doing something will bring the wrath of the most powerful company in the world down upon her.