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This Weightless World

✍ Scribed by Adam Soto


Book ID
100499942
Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Tongue
en-US
Weight
545 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781662600647

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


**"Set in Silicon Valley and Chicago, This Weightless World considers questions of morality in a world where people feel powerless in the face of formidable systemic forces." -- Laura Adamczyk, A.V. Club

A literary debut subverting classic sci-fi tropes set in gentrified Chicago, Silicon Valley, and across the vastness of the cosmos.**

From the streets of gentrified Chicago, to the tech boom corridors of Silicon Valley, This Weightless World follows a revolving cast of characters after alien contact upends their lives.

We are introduced to Sevi, a burned-out music teacher desperate for connection; Ramona, his on-again, off-again computer programmer girlfriend; and Sevi's cello protege Eason, struggling with the closure of his high school; after a mysterious signal arrives from outer space. When the signal--at first seen as a sign of hope--stops as abruptly as it started, they are all...


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