‘ON’ by Jon Puckridge was released as an ebook on the 15th of January. With the proof now approved the book will be available for purchase as a paperback on the 19th of February.
It’s BLADE RUNNER meets THE WINDUP GIRL
Youren Cartouche writes advertisements for tech companies who promise to take us all into the future. But when a global corporation launches ON, a product designed to link everyone into a fully networked world, reality starts to unravel. Youren and Constantin Zann, a bio-mechanical detective must discover the truth before their world completely disappears.
Ian Wood writing in Novellum said of the book:
This felt like reading a William Gibson Novel, which in some ways was wonderful, because it was like Gibson used to be, before he lost his direction, but in other ways it was a bad thing because once you start down the road to inventing a new cool world, there’s a danger you’ll go too far and ruin it by rendering it in such obscure hues that it’s unintelligible to the human eye. Fortunately, while parts of this world were obtuse, this author didn’t overdo it, and the story – once I settled into it – was engrossing. It’s Gibson by way of I, Robot and A.I., with a tang of Blade Runner for seasoning, and an ominous dash of 1984 that tingles like Takifugu on the tongue.
Read Ian Wood’s review in full here.
