Halfskin Trilogy
ByPublisher Description
THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTION HAS BEGUN. HUMANITY IS LOSING.
Synthetic stem cells have changed everything. No more cancer. No more organ failure. No more limits.
Humanity has become stronger, faster, smarter. But perfection comes with a price. And someone will always decide who is worthy.
Cali is a brilliant nanobiometric engineer determined to protect her younger brother from the Halfskin Laws, a ruthless system designed to shut down anyone with too many synthetic cells. When everybody can be scanned, counted, and weaponized, freedom becomes the first casualty.
Jamie has spent her life feeling broken. Biomites are the synthetic cells that can elevate body and mind, and they're her only hope. But one more dose puts her over the line. Becoming what she wants means becoming a target, unless she trusts an outlaw with a dangerous agenda and dives into the criminal world of undetectable biomites.
And deep within the remote exile colony for fabricated humans, Paul and Raine cling to the last pieces of their identity. To escape, they must join forces with Marcus Anderson, the man linked to every tragedy birthed from synthetic perfection. The truth they uncover will rewrite the story of humanity and the meaning of being alive.
Across continents and conspiracies, three stories collide in a revolution where biology is law, identity is currency, and survival demands sacrifice.
If you love the gritty bio-thriller tension of Altered Carbon, the moral complexity of Bladerunner, and the twisting conspiracies of The Hunger Games, this boxed set is your next obsession.
REVIEWS FOR HALFSKIN
- "This, quite frankly, is one of the best books I've read." –John Gregory Hancock, Amazon Reviewer
- "WOW." –Amanda Taylor, Amazon Reviewer
- "I was not expecting the twists…" –Amazon Reviewer
- "Hated finishing this book… many hours of enjoyment." –Eleanor Wendlberger, Amazon Reviewer
- "Halfskin is one of the best science fiction stories I've read this year." –ACFlory, Amazon Reviewer
- "Twisty turny, unexpectedness!!!!!! LOVED THE BOOK!" –Aisha-Kimberly Hashmi, Amazon Reviewer
- "One of the best stories i[sic] have read in a long time!" Brian, Amazon Reviewer
- "I was absolutely hooked from page 1!" –Amazon Reviewer
AWARDS
Underground Book Reviews 2015 Top Pick Award
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About Tony Bertauski
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.
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