Early next year, a deadly and unexplained virus emerges on the U.S. continent. Within weeks, the entire world’s population faces extinction. Amongst the chaos and desperation of a ruined world stand a few mysteriously unaffected individuals. Lost, confused, and alone. This is the bizarre story of one of those individuals, Matthew Cahill, as he travels from Pittsburgh through the Pennsylvania . . .
The year is 2108 and the world has changed. No longer is it one big web. The meaning of community has shrunk and changed. In this warm, friendly post-apocalyptic story, Gail and Parker learn what it is to be an adult in a society both familiar and unusual. . . .
In an alternate present the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can navigate the Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor. Laura is a homo sapiens. Their story is part . . .
Set in a world where high school meets high treason, Mind + Body sees protagonist and narrator Chris Baker under fire from rogue elements inside the Marine Corps, the FBI, and a handful of paid killers as he attempts to uncover a conspiracy that seems to envelop his entire life. Chris leads an entirely normal life until his father, . . .
"Listen, sugar, some things never change. Once a nigger lover, always a nigger lover. Only now they call them augers."
I have put off writing this review for the longest time. I finished Corvus at the tail end of 2009, and then had a few conversations with Lee, its author, not [more . . .]
Corvus slips between the story of Zach and Laura, and then Zach’s ‘professional’ life with the Fulgrid as a homo cognscens, a new evolution of human that has ‘developed’ special powers at a cost.
Previous reviewers have focused on the high school elements and the developing love story between Zach and [more . . .]