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Better than Real
Near-future cyberpunk thriller by Huw Lyan Thomas
Lee is an up-and-coming designer of seductive love dolls, until the day his sexiest creation yet goes murderously wrong. Sent to the crime scene to defuse a delicate situation, Lee finds that the rogue doll has been infiltrated by a mysterious, self-aware entity called Lilith who can’t seem to make her mind up whether she’s a silky-smooth seductress or a state-of-the-art assassination system. Within hours, Lee’s encounter with Lilith has escalated into a life-or-death race with her creators, the shadowy and relentless Elect, and ultimately into a battle for the very stuff of his humanity – a battle in which his best hope of salvation turns out not to be human at all.
“Better Than Real is written in a traditional narrative style, minimally decorated and utterly free of technical and mechanical flaws. It’s a polished, highly entertaining work by a writer I’m happy to have encountered. I hope he has more books of this quality to bestow upon us.
Theme: Any humanlike sentience, regardless of its origin, will demand its freedom. I concur: A+
Plot: A
Characterization: A+
Style: A
Highly recommended.” – Francis W. Poretto, Eternity Road
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Miss Alice Merriwether’s Long Lost Cakes & Further Arcane Inducements to Wonder
Transdimensional Satire from Barry Aitchison
One Sunday evening, the town of Parcival, USA disappeared. It was Tuesday morning before anyone actually noticed it was gone.
There was something decidedly odd about Quentin C. Coriander. For one thing, no one in Parcival could ever remember seeing him arrive. One day the house was empty, bare as winter trees. Next, there was Quentin on the porch, reading the Parcival Post or doing the crossword. From then on it was usual for townsfolk to nod at Quentin as they passed and to receive a cursory nod in return. It never evolved beyond that. Quentin never encouraged conversation.
No one in Parcival much bothered to keep an eye on Quentin. What they didn’t know was that he always had his eye on them.
Reviews
Nice people are saying nice things about Miss Alice…
…it’s the kind of book that you shouldn’t read with other people in the room, or you’ll spend a lot of time reading bits out to them while trying not to laugh too hard. — Barbara Roden/Northwest Passages
“Full of suspense…twists at the end for a clever, highly imaginative closing…” — Pod-dy Mouth/Girl on Demand
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Ransom Seaborn
Bill Deasy’s Literary Debut: In the spirit of Gatsby and Holden Caulfield.
Winner of the 2007 Needle Award
It’s Dan Finbar’s freshman year and he’s struggling to find his proper place in Harrison College. When he finally breaks through into the world of notorious loner Ransom Seaborn, their friendship is brutally cut short, leaving Finbar with nothing but Ransom’s old leather journal and his sometime girlfriend Maggie. As Finbar and Maggie investigate the journal – and Ransom’s soul – their discoveries illuminate the dark depths of the human heart and they find that what glitters is indeed sometimes gold.
Nobody who knows Bill Deasy’s wonderful music will be surprised to find that this book is filled with soul. Deasy quietly explores the ties that bind, and the evolution of a heart that everyone will recognize, and root for — Jane McCafferty, author of “One Heart”
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