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Book Review: Eating Robots and Other Stories by Stephen Oram

Introduction ISBN: 978-1781326220 Genre: Sci-fi Publishers: SilverWood Books Ltd Price:  Rs.192/-  ( I got the book for review from b00k r3vi3w ) Step into a high-tech vision of the future with author of Quantum Confessions and Fluence Stephen Oram. Featuring health-monitoring mirrors, tele-empathic romances and limb-repossessing bailiffs, Eating Robots explores the collision of utopian dreams and twisted realities in a world where humanity and technology are becoming ever more intertwined. Sometimes funny, often unsettling, and always with a word of warning, these thirty sci-fi shorts will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. Behind the Book Source: Goodreads.com

Book Review: Fluence by Stephen Oram

Introduction ISIN:  978-1781323632 Genre: Contemporary/ Dystopian Fiction Publishers: SilverWood Books Ltd Price:  Rs. 1597.70/- ( I got this book from b00k r3vi3w for a review ) It’s the week before the annual Pay Day when strata positions are decided by the controlling corporations. The social media feed is frenetic with people trying to boost their influence rating while those above the strata and those who’ve opted out pursue their own manipulative goals. Amber is ambitious. Martin is burnt out by years of struggling. She cheats to get what she wants while he barely clings on to what he has. Set in a speculative near-future London, Fluence is a satirical story of aspiration and desperation and of power seen and unseen. It’s a story of control and consequence. It’s the story of the extremes to which Amber and Martin are prepared to go in these last ten thousand minutes before Pay Day. Behind the book Source: Goodreads.com