36 Streets

T R Napper

ISBN 10: 178909741X / ISBN 13: 9781789097412

Editore: Titan Books IWUK Feb 2022, 2022

Neuware - Lin 'The Silent One' Vu is a gangster andsometimeprivate investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets.Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in theVietnamese underworld where Hanois crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory a dangerously addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war.When an Englishman comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friends murderer, Lin's life is turned upside down. She is drawn into the grandconspiracies ofthe neon gods of regimes and mega-corporations as they unleashdangerous newtechnologies.Lin must confrontthe immutable moralcalculus of unjust wars.She must choose: family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption.No choice is easy on the 36 Streets. Codice articolo 9781789097412

Riassunto:

Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this Ditmar and Aurealis award-winning, fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity and the power of narratives.

Lin ‘The Silent One’ Vu is a gangster in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, living in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. 

Through grit and courage, Lin has carved a place for herself in the Hanoi underworld under the tutelage of Bao Nguyen, who is training her to fight and survive. Because on the streets there are no second chances. 

Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory, an addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war. When an Englishman – one of the game’s developers – comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend’s murderer, Lin is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods: the mega-corporations backed by powerful regimes that seek to control her city. 

Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.

Informazioni sull'autore: T. R. Napper is the Aurealis and Ditmar award-winning author whose stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and others, and been translated into Hebrew, German, French, and Vietnamese. His first novel was the acclaimed 36 Streets. Before turning to writing, Napper was a diplomat and aid worker throughout Southeast Asia, helping to deliver humanitarian programs.

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Titolo: 36 Streets
Casa editrice: Titan Books IWUK Feb 2022
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu