The future is boring. Technology has solved most of the world’s most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play.
Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer’s computer system ...
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The future is boring. Technology has solved most of the world’s most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play.
Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer’s computer system has been invaded.
Jack enlists the help of her only friends – her co-worker, Gilles and Adrian, an online friend she’s never met – to help her track down the source of the invasion. Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude.
Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self-awareness.
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on Feb 05, 2010 at 16:18
I am only 3/4th of the way through this book, and already it is one of the better books I have read in this genre. While I wouldn't go so far as to say it is “dark and gritty” cyberpunk, it is certainly entertaining and a semi-dystopian view of the future that is believable enough to not break one out of the story's world.
All in all, very happy with this book and my thanks to the author!
From what I can see this is her first book, I hope she writes and posts many more!
on Dec 18, 2009 at 03:37
Loved this book. Really appealed to my geeky side. I could really relate to the main character.