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Grant Price

Auteur de By the Feet of Men

3 oeuvres 25 utilisateurs 10 critiques

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By the Feet of Men (2019) 12 exemplaires
Reality Testing (2021) 9 exemplaires
Pacific State (2023) 4 exemplaires

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Through Resler’s experience, readers will see the twisted and manipulative sides of corporations. They force employees to work long hours for little pay, watching their every move. If someone takes too long of a break, or unplugs from data sifting too many times, they’ll be punished with more work. And just when someone may think they’ve caught a break by helping the company achieve a deal, they’ll be given the choice of going into further debt, or quitting the company.

Mia’s storyline takes a more personal look at the corruption in Berlin. In debt to her fixer, she’s taking on a big job to try and come away debt free. She’s hired to remove a man experimenting on young women. But Benz is a high target, and she’ll need more resources at her disposal. Forming a crew to take him down will require Mia to scour the underbelly of Berlin. And with her choices limited, she’ll have to take chances.

There are various forms of slang used in Pacific State. The slang used in the corporate world can be a bit hard to understand. Being new to the corps, Resler helps the reader along in his assumptions of what is being said. And the slang used on the streets can take a moment to pick up on, but the context clues will help. Each use of language shows where characters come from and add to the overall worldbuilding.

When Resler and Mia cross paths, they’ll both have lives on the line and people caught in the crossfires. Working together to bring down Benz will be risky, but neither have much choice in the matter. While there will be moments the pacing slows as the characters work around challenges, the action and tension will mount as they get closer to their target.

Readers who enjoy cyberpunk will be pleased with the use of technology and cybernetic enhancements. Pacific State is a book for readers who enjoy dark and gritty sci-fi.
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Letora | Jan 15, 2024 |
If you're looking for a new take on the post-apocalyptic thriller genre, you've found your next read. The story moves along smoothly and quickly, across a future Europe that has become mostly a desert, with plenty of dangers for those willing to traverse it. I think what I found most chilling is how plausible a future this is, especially with global warming and where the planet is currently headed. Price did an excellent job of bringing both setting and characters to life, transporting the reader into a world where survival is uncertain, and risks must be taken if you aren't rich or smart enough to be in a protected area. This is definitely dark even for post-apocalyptic fiction, so don't go in expecting a light read. Overall, a bleak look into a possible future that will have your heart pounding, and keep you turning pages for hours.… (plus d'informations)
 
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LilyRoseShadowlyn | 5 autres critiques | Jun 23, 2023 |
Reality Testing is a change-up from previous works by Grant Price, and he continues to excel in imaginative and highly readable tech-fiction. If you’re looking for fast-paced futurism backed by a relevant and meaningful undercurrent, then Reality Testing won’t disappoint.
This gritty cyberpunk tale takes you deep into a uniquely-developed Euro-underworld, and will get you thinking about questions relating to the human condition, consciousness and the interface between mind and body, but not on such a deep level that it takes anything away from your enjoyment of the high-energy ride right up to its dramatic conclusion.
A brilliantly written and entertaining read.
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MatthewFrend | 2 autres critiques | Nov 24, 2022 |
The Publisher Says: Welcome to Berlin. Population: desperate. In the throes of the climate crisis the green tech pioneers are king, and if you aren't willing to be their serf then you're surplus to requirements.

Carbon credit for sleeping on the job. That's the offer a dreamtech puts to Mara Kinzig, and she jumps on it. After all, the city ain't getting any cheaper.

Then somebody changes the deal while she's dreaming in the tank.

Now Mara has a body on her hands, an extra voice in her head, and the law on her tail. Only the Vanguard, a Foreign Legion of outcasts seeking an alternative path in the dust between the city states, might be able to help her figure out what went wrong. First, though, she'll have to escape the seething streets of Berlin alive.

I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. THANK YOU.

My Review
: Another day, another dystopia. SF loves its dystopias, almost as much as YA does. The reason I rated this one three-and-a-half stars out of five is simple: I like the lesbian lead. She is a cool soul, struggling to make sense of her life while living it in a Grim New World that won't ever let her up or give her a break...and she doesn't carry that weight like it's a burden. She wants better for herself and her loved ones, like all people I've ever known. Daniel, another PoV, wasn't to my liking when I met him but he was compelling, driven by understandable needs and wants. He grows into someone I never expected him to be.

Also terrifically effective was the worldbuilding's slow-burn sensitivity to the plot. Permaybehaps the hardest adjustment was to the mixed slang spoken throughout, a heady brew of Chinese and German and so on and so forth. It's well deployed but still requires effort from the reader. We're in a climate-changed Berlin, a place not hugely resilient or possessed of reserves of natural diversity even now. Technology, that savior of all saviors, is pervasive in this climate-stressed world; I'd even say rampant. Its "blessings" are, as ever, unequally bestowed and frequently mitigated to the point of not being helpful.
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richardderus | 2 autres critiques | Oct 29, 2022 |

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