![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A neurological disease has left her face disfigured, which means that she is rendered virtually invisible on the ubiquitous augmented reality systems that everyone wears. Our hero, Hwa, is a martial arts expert with a weakness that turns out to be her greatest strength. If you like your science fiction kaleidoscopically strange yet infused with astute observations about where current technology might take us, you need to pick up a copy of Company Town right now. And I haven't even gotten to the part about the traumatized children of K-pop stars. Serial killers with invisibility suits weird. I'm talking time-hopping, artificial superintelligence weird. Madeline Ashby's new novel, Company Town, starts out like your average futuristic novel about a ninja bodyguard hired to protect unionized sex workers on a city-sized oil drilling platform off the coast of Canada. ![]()
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