Description

“Lesser Gods supplies a superbly published science-fiction journey that’s equally moving and thought-provoking, a visit you’ll not quickly forget.” Duncan Long (writer of the Index Planet Trilogy, HarperCollins; Antigrav Limitless, Avon Books; and the Night Time Stalkers sequence, HarperCollins) has generated a quick-paced story of the future Earth where community snipers pick off sellers, robot operates fatally amuck, and the resurrected dead walk the roads. Wisecracking hacker Rob Crocker finds herself in the centre of the bloody turf battle between a cyborg called Demise, wood- genetically-modified government providers, and taking road monstrosities. To survive, he must brave harmful darkness sides and confidence “Alice” (who might be digital), joining forces with her to face the godlike person pulling strings behind-the-scenes to change ideas and maybe even truth. The battle’s result will alter the near future in manners difficult to assume – and might prove fatal to both Alice and Ralph.With an amusing plot and skilled planning, this tale moves round the world and beyond, from roads worked by automatic hookers, to life-threatening visitor traps, to digital worlds where anything sometimes happens with fatal outcomes.