Kirjahaku

A thought-provoking dystopian sci-fi novel about privilege, class, and what it means to be human.It's not so much that Ordell Bentley craves captivity. The problem is that he can't see freedom as a true possibility. A genetically-altered clone called a model, Ordell was taught that his kind were worthless, dangerous creatures only good for manual labor. Among his peers, rumors abound of a secret society that can whisk models to freedom and deliver them to the far away land of Canada abound, but Canada is a long way from League City, Texas, where he spends his days working construction. Ordell has seen first-hand what happens when models step too far out of line. When his clandestine non-model girlfriend is murdered by a blood-purity group called HPM, Ordell finds himself running for his life -- a life that he's not sure that he still wants.Stumbling into his dead lover's abandoned daughter, Harper Rawls, the two form a bond that can only come from shared tragedy. Meanwhile, his owners seek to make an example of him. Hounded by bounty hunters and extremists alike, Ordell and Harper navigate through an escape plan from multiple pursuers while testing the boundaries of a legal system designed to keep the models confined to lifetime servitude. Canada is a far-off dream. Will either of them live to see it?Fans of science fiction novels that test the boundaries of what it means to be human will love Models and Citizens. A cross between Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Bladerunner (based on Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), this novel entertains from the first paragraph to the last word as Harper and Ordell struggle to survive in a post-climate change world. If you loved Atropos by John Lapuntich, you will enjoy this gripping thrill ride.

Bodhi has known since he was five that his daily treatments with the erythropoietin pump wouldn't work forever. He is dying. He knows it. His mother, Harper, knows it. Even his overly-friendly tries-to-hard "father", Aiden, the reclusive multi-billionaire, knows as well. All the money in the world can't save him, or so he believes. One day, though, when he forgets to eat and nearly dies as a consequence, his mother reaches out to his father, a bioengineering doctor who she helped revolutionize the modeling industry. Bodhi's father, and the company that she worked so hard to flee during the previous novel, Models and Citizens, has a solution. It's controversial, and there's only one other person in the entire planet of Earth who has undergone the same: Christine Hamilton, heiress Gallatin Hamilton's extensive fortune.When Bodhi meets Christine, the two hit it off and are inseparable until she decides to fulfill her family obligation of learning to be the heiress she's supposed to be and enrolls in Fouriedon University. Bodhi follows quite a different calling and tries to right what he views as the wrong of their treatment. In his mind, someone had to die for him to live, and that's not okay. Christine's path takes her into the modeling and cloning industries, where models are being created to shore up the fledgling Immortality program, while Bodhi is singularly focused on finding another way. As a terrorist organization closes in on them both, they both face the slow realization that their chosen paths not only pull them apart, but make them enemies. Love, deceit, and betrayal saturate the pages of this science fiction novel that blurs the boundaries of reality and virtual reality.

Is the struggle called "life or death" when you don't even know if you're real?Lincoln Montague's mother was murdered but nobody will listen. It's been two years, and even the Sheriff believes that her mother committed suicide. Lincoln's quest for the truth disrupts her life and the lives of everyone else in small-town Lothania, where townspeople would much rather forget the secrets Lincoln's investigation threatens to expose.When Lincoln finally discovers the truth about her home, she also affirms what she'd always suspected: she has no place in it. Should she stay? Should she go? Her future hinges on the answer to one simple question: what really happened that night when her mother, Aida, hung herself from their rafters? Aida Lothian's personality "quirks" keep her isolated and alone. The only thing she's good at is technology. But she's really good. In fact, she's so good that terrorist Jordan Helm seeks her out to build an escape kit and help him disappear. He says he's giving up the trade, but Aida suspects he may be orchestrating his grand finale.Is she strong enough to stop him? And if she does, then what? Aida has always known she would never live a normal life, but she never suspected what she would one day become: Libera, Goddess of Worlds.Libera, Goddess of Worlds chronicles events that take place just after Bodhi Rising, but follows the lives of two new characters, woven into a tapestry of intertwined fates. As models slowly integrate with society, something new is being born. And everyone is too busy to notice. Libera, Goddess of Worlds is a cross between Lawnmower Man by Stephen King and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K.Jeminson, this novel is a tale of love, betrayal, virtual reality, and the wrath of goddesses.