Chilling near-future SF for fans of Black Mirror and True Detective.
When Lucie Sterling's niece is abducted, she knows it won't be easy to find answers. Stanton is no ordinary city: invasive digital technology has been banned, by public vote. No surveillance state, no shadowy companies holding databases of information on private citizens, no phones tracking their every move.
Only one place stays firmly anchored in the bad old ways, in a huge bunker across town: Green Valley, where the inhabitants have retreated into the comfort of full-time virtual reality - personae non gratae to the outside world. And it's inside Green Valley, beyond the ideal virtual world it presents, that Lucie will have to go to find her missing niece.
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Mon, 7 Oct 2019 | Review
by: Breakaway R.
Shows what happens to a society where the virtual is the reality, and nothing is truly private
The Turn – the people of Stanton set aside technology and decided to live an ethical, socially responsible life free of digital surveillance and control, abuse of privacy rights, systematic repression of dissent, complicity and conspiracy. However, some people did not, and Green Valley was created for them. Green valley is a quarantined enclave run by the Zeroth Foundation, flesh and blood people living inside a vast warehouse. It is so much safer or healthier than the real world – with its cutting-edge circadian lighting systems, far safer and more nourishing than the carcinogenic sunlight. It has taintless hydroponic food and natural vitamin blends for optimal nutrition which is much more efficient and environmentally friendly than common farming. Or is it? When two children are found dead on the outskirts of Stanton, bristling with nanotechnology and Zeroth implants Lucie Sterling, special consultant with the Stanton CID, together with Detective Jordan Martinez investigate. Lucie has a personal interest in this, her sister and niece live in Green Valley – is her niece safe? What is happening to the children in Green Valley?
Nanotechnology is the study, use, manipulation and creation of materials, devices and systems at very tiny scales – mainly at the atomic and molecular levels. At this “nanoscale”, the normal rules of physics and chemistry often no longer apply, and as a result, many materials start to display novel, and sometimes, surprising properties, which can be exploited. It can be advantageous to humankind but can it also be taken too far?
This is a scary reminder of what the world could come to one day with advances in technology changing the world around us as we know it and megalomaniacs controlling these changes. The world is already very different from what it was fifty-years ago, what will it be in fifty-years-time? Are people going to have to choose how they want to live? I enjoyed the book as a scientist and recommend it everyone who wants a glimpse of our possible future.
Saphira
Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review.
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