3.5
Repo Virtual
By Corey J. WhitePublisher Description
The acclaimed author’s Aurealis Award–winning debut novel delivers a cyberpunk crime thriller that blurs the lines between the real and virtual.
The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities—augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.
Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He’s been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he’s stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.
The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities—augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.
Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He’s been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he’s stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.
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“Really cool setting and world and deals with some pretty big ideas and things. They don't quite pay off in the ways I hoped they might though. Still a worthwhile read if you like sci-fi/ cyberpunk.”
Diverse charactersAddictiveFast-pacedDark settingThought-provoking
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About Corey J. White
Corey J. White is the author of Repo Virtual and The VoidWitch Saga—Killing Gravity, Void Black Shadow, and Static Ruin—published by Tordotcom Publishing. They studied writing at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, and are now based in Melbourne, Australia.
Their novel, Repo Virtual, won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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