Green Valley
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE FOREWORD INDIE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
'Immersive, smart, eerily prescient and crackling with tension and atmosphere.' Sarah Lotz, author of Day Three and Day Four.
Chilling near-future SF for fans of Black Mirror and True Detective.
When Lucie Sterling's niece is abducted, she knows it won't be easy to find answers. Stanton is no ordinary city: invasive digital technology has been banned, by public vote. No surveillance state, no shadowy companies holding databases of information on private citizens, no phones tracking their every move.
Only one place stays firmly anchored in the bad old ways, in a huge bunker across town: Green Valley, where the inhabitants have retreated into the comfort of full-time virtual reality--personae non gratae to the outside world. And it's inside Green Valley, beyond the ideal virtual world it presents, that Lucie will have to go to find her missing niece.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Greenberg (Dark Windows) broadly sketches a near-future world where low-tech reality and high-tech virtual reality live side by side. Police consultant Lucie Sterling is on the hunt for a killer who's been dumping dead kids, all of whom have virtual reality enhancements, on the streets of Stanton. They can only be coming from one place: the last bastion of invasive digital surveillance technology, Green Valley, a concrete bunker that has housed Lucie's beloved niece Kira all her life. When Kira is abducted, Lucie must venture inside Green Valley to uncover the dark secrets hidden beneath the enclave's digital perfection or risk never seeing her niece again. Detailed characterization and worldbuilding take a back seat to the plot, and many elements strain credulity, but the taut technological mystery keeps readers on edge to the very end. While veteran SF readers may struggle to suspend disbelief, empathetic readers who care more about tension will be satisfied.
