Hard Reboot, Django Wexler
Hard Reboot, Django Wexler
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Hard Reboot

Author: Django Wexler

Narrator: Morgan Hallett

Unabridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/25/2021


Synopsis

"You're finished. The house owns you now."

Kas is a junior academic on a research mission to Old Earth. When a con artist tricks her into wagering a huge sum of money she doesn’t have on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of Old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights.

Is it time to get back to the books yet?

About Django Wexler

Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Django

My fun little novella is finally out! I hope everyone enjoys it. This was originally supposed to be a short story for the Silk & Steel anthology ( [URL not allowed] ) so if you liked that, you may enjoy this, and vice versa!......more

Goodreads review by Dannii

"Scholar Zychtykas Three—Kas to her friends, of which she had none—had slaved, scrimped, and swindled to get the fourth spot on the team going to Old Earth. She’d pulled strings, spent the pathetic remains of her savings, contemplated blackmail, and come perilously close to having to fuck an associa......more

Goodreads review by Hamad

This Review ✍️ Blog 📖 Twitter 🐦 Instagram 📷 Support me ☕ I need to be honest and say that novellas are not my favorites. I feel it takes a super talented author to contain a full story perfectly in such a small number of words. However, I think it is a very good form to experience some authors writin......more

An immersive, gritty Sci-fi romp of a novela, featuring giant battle mechas beating the hell out of each other in a dirty old-earth thunderdome. But it’s not just the robot pilots who need to stay frosty - spectators can unintentionally make life-wrecking bets on the outcome of these fights in secon......more

4.0 Stars This was an entertaining science fiction novella. I enjoyed seeing the author's imagined future, particularly exploring the cultural differences between the off worlders and those that stayed behind on old earth. The best parts were easily the mechs, which made me reminiscent of the mobile......more