Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The world already ended once ... #SciFi #PostApocalyptic #Giveaway @CitizenN8

Centricity cover
 

Blurb

The world already ended once. Now it's up to an outgunned negotiator, a disavowed spy, and an immersion-addicted hacker to stop it from happening again.

Centuries after the Fold, civilization is fragile. In the megacity of Naion, people live stacked in arcologies, most never going outside because the air is another enemy. Instead, freedom comes from technology: bodytechs modify the human form while synthetic intelligences whisper through brainware.

Now a new bridge between man and machine has emerged, one that could destroy humanity’s second shot at survival—or save it, depending on who gets to it first....

Adasha Denali is one of the government’s best dispute resolution specialists, but when a scandal threatens to destabilize the city and end her career, she’ll need more than words to escape the fallout. Venturing out of her office and into a fight for the future, she’ll team up with a disavowed spy, learning the hard way that betrayal wears many faces, and one of them may be her own.

Neon Nik is an immersion-addicted IT freelancer struggling to pay off debts to circling loan sharks. Threats of dismemberment become the least of his problems when a surprise inheritance throws him into a vortex of corporate kill squads willing to burn the city down to find him.

Engineered spies, high-tech mercenaries, and immersion hackers collide in this first gripping installment of the Centricity Cycle.

Excerpt

Nik smiled and the building smiled back, its façade all black teeth angles and white gum signage held together with cables and fat tendrils of epoxy. Poetry curled along the bulging geometry, hand-painted in dead Persian. He’d never bothered to have his software translate it. In an age of information bloat, ignorance was a proactive sport.

Above the entryway a single word blazed: HALE.

Two store fronts down, a woman rested against the shell of a mutilated cleaning bot. The glow of her cig warmed her blank expression. Another silhouetted figure pissed into a gap between buildings.

Hands in his pockets, Nik rolled his too small shoulders in his too big jacket. Soft with age, the leather made no sound. Canopy environmental systems kept temperatures chilly or warm but never quite comfortable. He coughed and thought about clearing his throat onto the sidewalk, decided not to—didn’t want to waste the residue of his last Cinnamon Fire—and crossed the street to Hale. Underfoot, a trampled stew of discard formed the menu of some future archaeological buffet.

The air inside hinted at decomposing animals in heating ducts. Ironic, considering this was the Canopy’s premier breather bar, where patrons sucked down spiked air cocktails.

About the Author

Nathaniel Henderson was born in 1983 in Albuquerque, NM, USA. At a young age he moved to Tulsa, OK, where he spent the next fifteen or so years surviving adolescence. After graduating from high school, he packed it up and headed out west to the picturesque Santa Cruz, CA to attend UCSC. After a year of wrestling with computer science, he transferred to San Francisco to study computer animation and special effects. The career didn’t stick, and he set off to teach English in South Korea, Thailand, and finally Tokyo, Japan, where he currently resides.

Links

email: citizenhenderson [at] gmail [dot] com

website: www.nathanielhenderson.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/citizenhenderson

Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/citizenhenderson

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/citizenhenderson

Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/citizenhenderson

Twitter: https://twitter.com/citizenn8


Centricity Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J859X4R 


 

Nathaniel Henderson will be awarding a $40 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC  to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

 

19 comments:

bn100 said...

nice excerpt
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Nathaniel Henderson said...

Centricity author here! Thanks to Beyond Romance for hosting this tour stop! I'm excited about this chance to engage with readers. Thanks to everyone who stops by.

In Centricity, the world itself is another living, breathing character. How do you engage with a setting? What details really draw you in?

Lisabet Sarai said...

Hello, Nathaniel!

Welcome to Beyond Romance. Science fiction may well be my favorite genre, so I'm delighted to host your tour today.

I'll venture an answer to your question, since setting is one of the things I notice most about a book. Actually, I'm quite sensitive to olfactory details - so your excerpt's comments about decomposing animals in the heating ducts really hit home!

Nathaniel Henderson said...

Lisabet, thanks for the comment.

It's great that detail stood out to you. I think sometimes we get overly focused on sight, when that's actually a pretty narrow part of our sensory experience. Smell I think is the sense tied most directly to memory.

aerokorngal said...

Brilliant style! reneela2000@gmail.com

Rita Wray said...

I enjoyed the excerpt, sounds like a good book.

Colleen C. said...

Enjoyed what you shared

bn100 said...

nice blurb
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Audrey Stewart said...

Nathaniel Henderson is a new author to me, but I look forward to reading this. I always love meeting new authors. Thanks to this blog for the introduction.

Stormy Vixen said...

Great excerpt, sounds like a fantastic book to read, thanks for sharing it with me!

Sherry said...

This sounds like such a good book and the cover is wonderful.

Fiona McGier said...

"In an age of information bloat, ignorance was a proactive sport." I love this sentiment! This is why I still have a flip-phone, and I never go on-line with it--only use it for texts and calls. There's nothing I need to know that quickly that it can't wait until I get home to my laptop. And if I've forgotten it by then, I guess it wasn't that important for me to know. So my ignorance is by choice--as you say, a pro-active sport.

Rose-Marie said...

This sounds like a great book to have to read over the long and dark winter. Keep you turning the pages!

Anne said...

Interesting book to see here on the blog. After looking at the cover, reading the blurb and bio, I was wondering if those were representations of arcologies on the cover and whether the author's time in Japan influence the cover. It seems every movie that has a night scene in Japan looks a it like this cover with the really talk buildings and the color from the lights.

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Anne said...

If only I could autocorrect...where's my red pen??? influenced, looks a BIT, tall (not talk).

Bad Anne.

James Robert said...

Thanks much for sharing your book and a giveaway. Sounds great and happy to have read about it.

Jeanna Massman said...

I love the cover! The colors are amazing.

L.C. said...

I came here from Lisabet's newsletter. Thank you for introducing me this cool story! (harperyn (at) outlook (dot) com)

DVDgal75 said...

Cool cover

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