βRaymond Ess is going to kill me." This is what Steven Strauss thinks. He also thinks that he and his boss Raymond Ess are on a fool's errand. They're in India to buy an anti-gravity machine β something Steven is almost certain doesn't exist, and something Ess is convinced will save his company from
This Weightless World
β 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.
β¦ 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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