Glow
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A man battles his addiction to a devastating nanotech drug that steals identities and threatens the survival and succession of mankind as a galactic species.
After the Nova-Insanity shattered Earth’s civilization, the Genes and Fullerenes Corporation promised to bring humanity back from the brink. Many years later, various factions have formed, challenging their savior and vying for a share of power and control.
Glow follows the lives of three very different beings, all wrestling mental instability in various forms; Rex – a confused junkie battling multiple voices in his head; Ellayna – the founder of the GFC living on an orbital satellite station and struggling with paranoia; and Jett – a virtually unstoppable robotic assassin, questioning his purpose of creation.
All of them are inextricably linked through the capricious and volatile Glow; an all controlling nano-tech drug that has the ability to live on through multiple hosts, cutting and pasting memories and personas in each new victim.
In this tech-crazed world where nothing seems impossible, many questions are posed: what makes us who we are? What is our ultimate purpose and place in this world? And, most frightening of all, what are we capable of doing to survive?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Hivemind | One More Fix | No Escape | Run Like Hell ]
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An intricate puzzle of identity collapses under its own weight in Jordan's body horror laced cyberpunk debut. Fourteen years after a nuclear apocalypse, South American Coriolis City is rife with murderous automatons, drug-crazed cyborgs, and the deadly machine-drug Glow. After Glow addict Rex wakes up tied to a corpse, his head full of someone else's memories, he stumbles into a web of conspiracy involving the only remaining founder of a pharmaceutical megacorporation, a nunnery devoted to creating their own god, and an artificial humanoid on a last-ditch mission to find a stolen digital oracle. The identity of the corpse Rex wakes with connects them all. Running beneath the violent tangle of identity and memory is a fascinating exploration of how people cope or fail to with adversity, but the convoluted plot is smothered in ungainly, jargon-heavy prose. Technological exposition frequently substitutes for story, and archetypical characters never satisfyingly develop. A fumbling plot and relentless nihilism make this one to skip.
