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Liquid Cool (The Cyberpunk Detective Series): Liquid Cool, #1
Liquid Cool (The Cyberpunk Detective Series): Liquid Cool, #1
Liquid Cool (The Cyberpunk Detective Series): Liquid Cool, #1
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Liquid Cool (The Cyberpunk Detective Series): Liquid Cool, #1

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The Sci-Fi Detective Thriller Gets Cool...Liquid Cool!

 

Liquid Cool Book #1 is the FIRST-IN-SERIES action-packed (and funny) sci-fi detective series.

 

Meet a private eye with a cool hat, laser gun, and attitude. But don't touch his red hovercar -- or you could get shot!

Enter the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool as Cruz faces off neon gangsters, sinister cyborgs, corporate samurai soldiers, and laser-gun shootouts while solving his cases in the rainy supercity of Metropolis. It's more gritty action and dark humor than you can handle.

In the debut novel that started it all, author Austin Dragon shows why you never want to meet a cyborg in a dark alley.

Liquid Cool is cyberpunk reimagined. It's cyber-noir. It's science fiction meets the detective thriller in an ever-rainy world of mega-skyscrapers. Hovercars fly above in the dark, bustling skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, flashy streets of this "neon jungle." Metropolis isn't a bad place, but it isn't a good one either. Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the supercity, but so does crime.

It's here we meet Cruz, our private eye (and unlikely hero), in this supercity with a million victims and perpetrators.

 

Sci-Fi Gets Cool…Liquid Cool!

 

So grab Liquid Cool today and begin your action-filled and funny sci-fi detective adventure with Cruz and company!

 

˃˃˃FIVE STAR REVIEWS

 

"Lots of shooting, lots of crazy maniacs, lots of action and fun!"

"I loved this book. It takes place in the future, and what a weird future."

"A funny, intelligent (and sometimes crazy) main character…playing detective"

"Cool and Smooth."

"Too much fun!"

"This is probably one of the very best cyberpunk novels I've ever read!!"

"Page Turner. Constant excitement. The best in 35 years of reading!"

"Delicious Stew That Is Part Sci-Fi, Part Detective, and Part Humor – It is hard to combine two genres into one novel. It is even harder to combine three. Part of the trick…is to know when to back off on each single genre so that the combination, while less than full in any one genre, is a good combination. Austin Dragon uses that trick… this novel would get about three stars in each genre alone, but the combination well deserves five!"

LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 14, 2016
ISBN9780990931577
Liquid Cool (The Cyberpunk Detective Series): Liquid Cool, #1
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Austin Dragon

Austin Dragon is the author of over 30 books in science fiction, fantasy, and classic horror. His works include the sci-fi noir detective LIQUID COOL series, the epic fantasy FABLED QUEST CHRONICLES, the international futuristic epic AFTER EDEN Series, the classic SLEEPY HOLLOW HORRORS, and new military sci-fi PLANET TAMERS series. He is a native New Yorker but has called Los Angeles, California home for more than twenty years. Words to describe him, in no particular order: U.S. Army, English teacher, one-time resident of Paris, movie buff, Fortune 500 corporate recruiter, renaissance man, futurist, and dreamer.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I freely chose to review this ARC as I wanted to know what all the hype was about, so now I know and can't wait the rest of the series! I was intrigued as futuristic books are my passion and Cruz never let me down in his determination to reach the top when he was given a case to solve about what set Easy Chair Charlie to trigger a shootout with dozen of Metropolis cops when he knew Easy never carried a gun! And so begins Cruz's rise to a private investigator that eventually leads him to trying to stay alive as every gang wanted to take him out.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a fun book. Its a Philip Marlowe or Mike Hammer story set in a science fiction future with flying cars and laser guns. Its fast paced with a lot of violence but not gory. And it never takes itself too seriously. A perfect book to follow an intense thriller or serious non-fiction.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    For some reason when I picked this up I thought it was cyberfunk, not cyberpunk. Oops.

    Either way, I was looking for something out of my comfort zone, and I got it.

    It took me a while to get into the story. In spite of the action in the first chapter, the overall story starts off slow and it takes a while to see what the main plot will be and how all the characters fit together. The writing style also threw me at first. It's more descriptive and in some ways flowery than is common, which gives the writing a more languid feel.

    But once I got into the story I really enjoyed it. The city is fascinating, a character in it's own right. The human characters are engaging and enjoyable. The plot is fun, occasionally convoluted, and very much believable.

    It's billed as detective noir meets cyberpunk and that's very much what it is. If you like either of those genres, or are looking to try something new, I highly recommend.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a fun book. Its a Philip Marlowe or Mike Hammer story set in a science fiction future with flying cars and laser guns. Its fast paced with a lot of violence but not gory. And it never takes itself too seriously. A perfect book to follow an intense thriller or serious non-fiction.

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