Tony Bertauski

Halfskin (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For fans of Bladerunner and Brave New World comes a new twist…

Perfection has arrived.

Synthetic stem cells mean no more organ failure, no more pharmaceuticals. No cancer. The human race is stronger, smarter and prettier. Is it better?

Cali Richards is a nanobiometric engineer who has been her younger brother's guardian since their parents died. She's lost too many people in her life to lose another. When the government declares the Halfskin Laws will shut down anyone with too many synthetics, she decides to hide him. But even brilliance can succumb to the pressure of suffering. And synthetics can't cure insanity.

Follow their twisting, slippery grip on reality as they strive to find happiness in a world that has everything it could possibly want.

REVIEWS FOR HALFSKIN

"This, quite frankly, is one of the best books I've read." -John Gregory Hancock, Reviewer "WOW." -Amanda Taylor, Reviewer "I was not expecting the twists…" - Reviewer "Hated finishing this book… many hours of enjoyment." -Eleanor Wendlberger, Reviewer "Halfskin is one of the best science fiction stories I've read this year." -ACFlory, Reviewer "Twisty turny, unexpectedness!!!!!! LOVED THE BOOK!" -Aisha-Kimberly Hashmi, Reviewer "One of the best stories i[sic] have read in a long time!" Brian, Reviewer "I was absolutely hooked from page 1!" - Reviewer

AWARDS

Underground Reviews 2015 Top Pick Award

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: DeadPixel Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498980814
• Artikelnr.: 42162814

Autorenporträt

I grew up in the Midwest where the land is flat and the corn is tall. The winters are bleak and cold. I hated winters.

I always wanted to write. But writing was hard. And I wasn't very disciplined. The cold had nothing to do with that, but it didn't help. That changed in grad school.

After several attempts at a proposal, my major advisor was losing money on red ink and advised me to figure it out. Somehow, I did.

After grad school, my wife and my two very little children moved to the South in Charleston, South Carolina where the winters are spring and the summers are a sauna (cliche but dead accurate). That's when I started teaching and writing articles for trade magazines. I eventually published two textbooks on landscape design. I then transitioned to writing a column for the Post and Courier. They were all great gigs, but they weren't fiction.

That was a few years later.

My daughter started reading before she could read, pretending she knew the words in books she propped on her lap. My son was a different story. In an attempt to change that, I began writing a story with him. We made up a character, gave him a name, and something to do. As with much of parenting, it did not go as planned. But the character got stuck in my head.

He wanted out.

A few years later, Socket Greeny was born. It was a science fiction trilogy that was gritty and thoughtful. That was 2005.

I have been practicing Zen since I was 23 years old. A daily meditator, I wanted to instill something meaningful in my stories that appeals to a young adult crowd as well as adult. I hadn't planned to write fiction, didn't even know if I had anymore stories in me after Socket Greeny.

Turns out I did.