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Raging against the machine when you are the machine proves a very tricky business in this post-apocalyptic tale of an elusive humanoid robot gone zombie from an infected hard-drive who lures a renegade bot-cop, hell bent on collecting his bounty, into an epic battle of wits and a mind-blowing journey of discovery across America’s great desert basin:

It's 2062. Planet Earth has changed dramatically in the past few decades. Cataclysmic climate change resulting in natural catastrophes on a scale and frequency never before witnessed and a veritable ice age blanketing most of the northern hemisphere has forced the remaining displaced populaces worldwide into massive underground bunkers for their survival.

At the time of this unfolding crisis, with international governments, relief agencies, financial institutions, and even military forces in complete disarray or permanently reduced to tatters, temporary emergency powers were vested in the dozen or so multinational corporations left standing and who were viewed as the only viable parties with enough resources at their disposal to competently address and tend to mounting civilian needs.

That was fifty years ago, and they’re still in control.

Under the new system, devised in the early days by the ruling Corporate Coalition, there’s now no cash, no debit, no credit, no charge for anything—the bunker masses are required instead to labor in exchange for their food, clothing, shelter, medicine, internet access and, most importantly, protection.

It’s a cozy and convenient setup for big industry, but, with violent weather, earthquakes, hackers, pirates, saboteurs, deserters and dissidents, there’s still a host of very real threats to the new world order. And The Coalition has developed a myriad of methods for combating them, laws and procedures enforced by a dedicated army of highly specialized mercenaries working beside a state-of-the-art fleet of robots, some of which are humanoid and uncannily lifelike in their appearance and actions.

But not always 100% reliable in the field.

Or loyal.

Scifi diehards, technogeeks, and survivalists: Apocalypse + BOT = get your game on.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 20, 2012
ISBN9781476449241
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Eponymous Rox

writer, investigative journalist, researcher

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