{"product_id":"9781982142759","title":"Firebreak","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this “profound…resonant” (NPR), all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing take on \u003ci\u003eReady Player One\u003c\/i\u003e, with a heavy dose of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReady Player One\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eCyperpunk 2077\u003c\/i\u003e in this eerily familiar future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Twenty minutes to power curfew, and my kill counter’s stalled at eight hundred eighty-seven while I’ve been standing here like an idiot. My health bar is flashing ominously, but I’m down to four heal patches, and I have to be smart.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNew Liberty City, 2134.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTwo corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country’s remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHere, Mallory streams Stellaxis’s wargame, \u003ci\u003eSecOps\u003c\/i\u003e on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the game’s rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal—looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the \u003ci\u003eSecOps\u003c\/i\u003e characters. Mal’s sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife’s developer, and puts her in the kind of danger she’s only experienced through her avatar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAuthor Kornher-Stace’s adult science fiction debut—\u003ci\u003eFirebreak\u003c\/i\u003e—is a “fight song in praise of fierce friendship and the strength to endure” (Amal El-Mohtar, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is How You Lose the Time War\u003c\/i\u003e) loaded with ambitious challenges and a city to save.","brand":"Nicole Kornher-Stace","offers":[{"title":"Gallery \/ Saga Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2022-04-26","offer_id":44150968680703,"sku":"9781982142759","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d448cf7d-3ed3-4898-8f34-8efa32344d44.jpg?v=1648656061","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781982142759","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}