Welcome to Perion City, home to the largest beta test ever conceived. Though its roughly half a million residents all consider themselves human, nearly a third live with the knowledge that they were not born... they were manufactured.
Sava Kessler has spent almost a decade protecting the public image of Perion Synthetics, the world's leading manufacturer of artificially intelligent, synthetic humans. In that time, she has elevated CEO James Perion to the role of national savior, a tech titan with the moral and financial fortitude to protect the country from maligned conglomerate Vinestead International. But now the savior is dying, and there is no guarantee that the next ruler of Perion City will share James Perion's vision of a synthetic utopia.
To ensure the company's survival, Sava enlists a synthetic army to defend a vulnerable Perion Synthetics from corporate sabotage, media scrutiny, and insidious threats from all corners of the city.
Will the world learn the true nature of the coming synthetic revolution? Can Sava keep inquisitive aggregators from the three largest media houses in the country from revealing the company's darkest secrets... and several of her own?
Find out by visiting Perion City in the third novel by Science Fiction author Daniel Verastiqui.
The Synthetic Revolution awaits.
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Review
"Daniel Verastiqui has an obsession with giving his characters great big heaping gobs of amazing technology, and then watching them screw themselves with it. Perion Synthetics takes that to a new level." - Travis Holmes
From the Author
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? Perspective.
The social media juggernauts of Facebook, Twitter, and Wuphf have come and gone, replaced by a unified stream of information. A new form of media has taken over, connecting you to the world through an electronic device you insert in your ear. It is known as a whisperer, and the picture it paints of the world depends on which feed you subscribe to.
Are you a jet-setting, new-money, conqueror of the boardroom? Then Banks Media Productions out of Los Angeles may be up your alley. Prefer the gritty synth scene and want nothing but the latest updates on the sexiest tech to hit the market that morning? Try Lincoln Continental, run by Lincoln Tate out of Umbra. If the West Coast is dead to you, try the superficial glitz and glamour of The White Line, run by Texas native Benny Coker out of Atlantic City.
Whichever you choose, try to remember that no media house is unbiased, and that they aren't selling you information--they're selling you perspective.
Description:
Welcome to Perion City, home to the largest beta test ever conceived. Though its roughly half a million residents all consider themselves human, nearly a third live with the knowledge that they were not born... they were manufactured.
Sava Kessler has spent almost a decade protecting the public image of Perion Synthetics, the world's leading manufacturer of artificially intelligent, synthetic humans. In that time, she has elevated CEO James Perion to the role of national savior, a tech titan with the moral and financial fortitude to protect the country from maligned conglomerate Vinestead International. But now the savior is dying, and there is no guarantee that the next ruler of Perion City will share James Perion's vision of a synthetic utopia.
To ensure the company's survival, Sava enlists a synthetic army to defend a vulnerable Perion Synthetics from corporate sabotage, media scrutiny, and insidious threats from all corners of the city.
Will the world learn the true nature of the coming synthetic revolution? Can Sava keep inquisitive aggregators from the three largest media houses in the country from revealing the company's darkest secrets... and several of her own?
Find out by visiting Perion City in the third novel by Science Fiction author Daniel Verastiqui.
The Synthetic Revolution awaits.
**
Review
"Daniel Verastiqui has an obsession with giving his characters great big heaping gobs of amazing technology, and then watching them screw themselves with it. Perion Synthetics takes that to a new level." - Travis Holmes
From the Author
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? Perspective.
The social media juggernauts of Facebook, Twitter, and Wuphf have come and gone, replaced by a unified stream of information. A new form of media has taken over, connecting you to the world through an electronic device you insert in your ear. It is known as a whisperer, and the picture it paints of the world depends on which feed you subscribe to.
Are you a jet-setting, new-money, conqueror of the boardroom? Then Banks Media Productions out of Los Angeles may be up your alley. Prefer the gritty synth scene and want nothing but the latest updates on the sexiest tech to hit the market that morning? Try Lincoln Continental, run by Lincoln Tate out of Umbra. If the West Coast is dead to you, try the superficial glitz and glamour of The White Line, run by Texas native Benny Coker out of Atlantic City.
Whichever you choose, try to remember that no media house is unbiased, and that they aren't selling you information--they're selling you perspective.