Book Description

A neural chip capable of digitising the human consciousness? Technological immortality? Of course governments and big business will kill for that! If you're a fan of original cyberpunk and loved the books of William Gibson, Walter Jon Williams, Philip K Dick and Rudy Rucker. Or if you're into modern variations by authors like Blake Crouch, Neal Asher and Daniel Suarez — this tense, action-packed technothriller IS FOR YOU! Set in a worryingly foreseeable near-future where the gap between rich and poor continues to grow and big business has de facto control over much of the planet, not everything is as it seems after China attempts to steal the prototype of a groundbreaking neural implant. Humanity and technology are on a collision course, and as killers and thieves chase wetware engineer, Eric Thorne, through both physical and digital realities, the greed and ambition of two men will change the world forever. Ghost in the Machine is the first in a series of books that follow humanity from a broadly recognisable present into a bleak, yet disturbingly predictable, future. Presented as techno-thrillers through a cyber/biopunk lens, each book in 'The Sum of our Parts' chronicles the convergence of, and inevitable conflict arising from, inherent human characteristics with a rapidly growing pandora's box of technology — exploring how ever-present issues like poverty, greed and control mix with and react to new ones such as transhumanism, the rights of sentient, autonomous entities, and the consequences of digital immortality. ***What other readers are saying*** Technothriller / Tech Noir / Cyberpunk ... Fabulous Set in a near future I think we can all see coming, where huge corporations control everything we see (and therefore believe), and government is little more than a thin veneer covering individual ambitions and dynasties - this book does a masterful job of painting a picture of what happens when someone says 'No.' But there's much, much more to the stories woven into the pages than that: an android reaching autonomy, a washed up intelligence operative reaching the end of his tether, the morality of technological enhancement, transhumanism ... the list goes on, and the author does a brilliant job of drawing them all together in a rather satisfying finale!” Couldn't put it down!!! Really great plot, couldn't stop reading, plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing followed up by a superb ending which did not disappoint. What a cracking good read Ghost in the Machine is a brutally close approximation to where many of us feel society is currently heading: corporate fatcats dictating what we see and don't see, government a sad reflection of democracy - and a world changing to fast, and all for the worse.