Cash Crash Jubilee
β Scribed by Eli K. P. William
- Publisher
- Talos Press
- Year
- 2016;2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 345 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A man and his money are parted not by death but by deletion in this "prophetic and chilling" cyber-dystopian thriller (Gordon Dahlquist).
In Tokyo, every single actionβfrom blinking to sexβis intellectual property owned by corporations. A BodyBank implant in each citizen records movements and connects to the ImmaNet, so that every inch of the cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting cinematic promotainment.
Amon Kenzaki works as a Liquidator for the Global Action Transaction Authority, capturing bankrupt citizens, removing their implants, and banishing them to BankDeath Camps where they are forever cut off from the action-transaction economy.
With his savings accumulating and a promotion impending, everything seems to be going wellβuntil he's asked to deal with finance minister Lawrence Barrow, a charismatic politician and model citizen. Soon after, Amon is charged for an incredibly expensive...
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