- Title: AndroDigm Park 2067Author: JMJ WilliamsonLength: 240 pagesGenre: Sci Fi/Techno ThrillerRelease date: 23 April 2018FTC ARC from the Author
Description
This is a gritty noir, sci-fi thriller, set in the near future, where the large global corporations that dominate the cyber-tech, media, and entertainment industries hold the levers of political power. It’s a hedonistic, secular world struggling to deal with the introduction of a new generation of android workers, which threaten the livelihoods of their human counterparts.
Just weeks before the opening of AndroDigm Park, the CEO of AndroDigm, the world’s largest android manufacturer, is brutally murdered at an Action Against Androids demonstration.
Now Marshal Shelby, a modern-day bounty hunter, sponsored by the CEO’s daughter, must track down her assassins and find out who was behind the attack. His investigation takes him into the world of the super rich, where using cybernetics, cloning and human augmentation makes almost anything possible.
At the centre of the investigation is AndroDigm Park, a fantasy park, where the super rich can indulge their wildest fantasies in a world populated with android characters and fantasy creatures. They can travel back in time to Camelot, ride a dragon, defeat monsters, fight pirates, or simply indulge in any kind of debauchery they desire. It is a fantasy park where dreams become reality.
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Review: AndroDigm Park 2067
Did you know that 2067 was the centenary year for 'Summer of Love?
As I open up to the first chapter of this book, I'm at a murder scene and not just any murder scene but one at Lucifer's Pleasure Cave.
You’re probably wondering how did I get in this situation.
I enter - with a blindfold in hand - trading my clothes for a costume.
The main character Shelby is also here. Shelby's a Marshal haunted by the loss of his family. He's talking to Scarlet. She's the barmaid, in short shorts, that works on droids. There's soon to be - dead man - Morelli. And there's Jess, the modified fembot with a military design.
Once Morelli buys the farm, Shelby and Scarlet flee in the heli-car with Jess assisting. Shelby's plan is to take Scarlet to the Central Justice Building and put her in protective custody. But they are being chased - by drones.
In case you are ever chased by drones in 2067- know this- you must - shed your clothes.
I'm serious.
Yes, SERIOUS.
They use them as a tracking device.
As luck would have it, to replace the shirt she'd tossed, Scarlet found a Zeppelin shirt.
Hmmm, "I wonder if it's like the one I own?"
This is very much the writing style of a magical realist. It has magnesium flares, monitors, and manifestations of the sensually self-indulgent.
To try to wrap up a massively hedonistic world - you escape to a fantasy land with mythical creatures or you go home and watch the movie Casablanca.
What it all comes down to is what the fembot questions, "You're not very good role models for an evolving artificial intelligence are you?"
Shelby's response to Scarlet, "Androids more intelligent than we are can't be a good thing."
l received this book from the author and laughed aloud through a portion of this book. The author takes risks in this gritty noir and uses humor and a great deal of E X A G G E R A T I O N.