The Minerva Sierra Challenge is a grueling spectacle, the cyborg's Tour de France. Rich thrill-seekers with corporate sponsorships, extensive support teams, and top-of-the-line exoskeletal and internal augmentations pit themselves against the elements in a day-long race across the Sierra Nevada. Marmeg Guinto doesn t have funding, and she doesn t have support. She cobbled her gear together from parts she found in rich people s garbage and spent the money her mother wanted her to use for nursing school to enter the race. But the Minerva Challenge is the only chance she has at a better life for herself and her younger brothers, and she s ready to risk it all."Runtime" is S. B. Divya's exciting science fiction debut.PRAISE FOR "RUNTIME" A thrilling romp through a gleaming cybernetic future that's neither dystopia nor utopia, but embedded in our reality I wish more science fiction were as exciting and relevant as "Runtime." Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner and author of "The Grace of Kings""S. B. Divya is a new light on the science fiction scene, a writer with the promise and talent to become one of our genre's stars. Have a read; she's a wonderful storyteller." Catherine Asaro, Nebula Award winning author."
