Repo Virtual

Name: Repo Virtual
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Corey J. White
ISBN: 9781250219244

Author: Corey J. White

Narrator: Stephen Walker

Unabridged: 11 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 04/21/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Corey J. White's debut novel Repo Virtual blurs the lines between the real and virtual in an action-packed cyberpunk heist story.

The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities — augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.

Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He's been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he's stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com

About Corey J. White

Corey J. White is the author of Repo Virtual and The VoidWitch Saga – Killing Gravity, Void Black Shadow, and Static Ruin. She has also had short fiction published in Interzone and Analog magazines, and a number of sci-fi anthologies. She studied writing at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, and is now based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.Her novel Repo Virtual won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

About Stephen Walker

Stephen Walker is an independent civil and commercial mediator. He has conducted over 750 mediations. He is ranked in the top 40 UK mediators by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and WWL and is on the International Mediation Institute's (IMI) panel of accredited international mediators. He became an accredited specialist online mediator in 2015 and has done over 150 online mediations. He also undertook specialised training in family and workplace mediation and is dual certified in the USA through INADR. Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Society of Arts as well as a visiting lecturer in mediation at Kings College London. He is regularly asked to give workshops, talks and presentations on mediation.Stephen is the author of five mediation books published by Bloomsbury Professional Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation (2nd Ed); Setting Up in Business as a Mediator (2nd Ed); FAQs for Mediators; Mediation: An A-Z Guide; and Mediation Behaviour: Why We Act Like We Do.For further information please visit www.swalkermediation.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on April 12, 2020

4.0 Stars It’s always a great feeling when one of your most anticipated books lives up to the hype! Repo Virtual was exactly the futuristic cyberpunk heist I wanted! The world building in this one was absolutely fascinating. I loved how the virtual reality overlay that obscured, but did not completel......more

Goodreads review by Jason on November 18, 2019

The most frustrating thing about being a fan of a genre publisher, like I am with the science-fiction press Tor, is that for every amazing book they put out, we have to wade through ten mediocre ones, designed mostly for hardcore superfans who burn through a book a day and therefore have a much lowe......more

Goodreads review by Holly (The GrimDragon) on April 20, 2020

"Thousands of hours spent creating a universe for people to war over. Millions of people spending billions of collective hours fighting imaginary wars. Mining digital ore to build digital ships--every atom in the universe accounted for, artificial scarcity through detailed simulation. For eighteen y......more

Goodreads review by Mackenzie (mackenziespocket) on April 19, 2020

Actual rating: 3.5 First things first (I'm the realest). Sorry, whenever I say that phrase, that lyric from Fancy always pops into my head. Anyway!! My point was I first wanted to focus on the premise - a heist? An AI? Yes. Two of my favorite things. I went into this book being pretty sure I would lo......more

Goodreads review by Enso on April 21, 2020

Repo Virtual is a cyberpunk novel for our times, if I do it a disservice by calling it "cyberpunk." As many have noted, cyberpunk both hasn't aged well but is also stayed relevant, in tone if not always in detail, due to the continuing present our world has evolved into over the last 40 years since......more

Quotes

"Cyberpunk's critical update, for these mixed-reality days of dark money, livestreaming cults, machine gaze and life lived on the razorwire edge." —Warren Ellis

"Repo Virtual constructs a stunningly vivid cyberpunk world that blurs the line between illusion and reality, dripping with the neon panache of a technological juggernaut in an action packed heist that'll steal your heart with ideas that are as revealing as they are powerful." —Peter Tieryas