Greetings from the Land of No-Sleep
To celebrate the birth of his second child, for the next three days (August 13–15) Anderson O’Donell is offering his debut novel Kingdom for free for your Kindle and Kindle reader apps! To get your filthy little mitts on a complimentary copy, just drop by Amazon. And, if you like it, buy one for a friend—diapers ain’t cheap! (He is kidding, well sort of)
And if you needed any more incentive to check out Kingdom (other than the $0.00 price tag and the celebration of new life), consider what some other folks are saying about Kingdom:
"A taut, brilliantly conceived thriller with impeccable pacing bursting with ideas...For fans of noir-laden science fiction in the vein of Philip K. Dick that is in equal measures suspenseful, gripping, darkly funny and philosophically challenging." (starred review)
- Kirkus Reviews
"Toss William Gibson, Andrew Vachss and David Fincher into the Petri dish, irradiate them, then infuse the result with Transylvanian meth, and you'll have some sense of what O'Donnell has concocted."
There simply aren’t enough stars to communicate the impressiveness of O’Donnell’s work here. He has taken religion, science, politics, theory and philosophy and blended them all together to create what is easily one of the most important books to come out this year.
- Pavarti K. Tyler, Fighting Monkey Press & author of Shadow on the Wall
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Kingdom
In a secret laboratory hidden under the desert, a covert bioengineering
project---codename "Exodus"---has discovered the gene responsible for
the human soul.
In a glittering tower high above the urban decay, an ascendant U.S. Senator is found dead---an apparent, yet inexplicable, suicide.
And in the streets below, a young man races through an ultra modern metropolis on the verge of a violent revolution....closing in on the terrible truth behind Exodus---and one man's dark vision for the future of mankind.
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Anderson O'Donnell presents a biopunk, dystopian noir-esque thriller in this amazing read, KINGDOM. Most people are familiar with the term "cyberpunk," but "biopunk" is harder to nail down. In many ways, biopunk is similar to the cyberpunk genre, and shares many of the same themes and archetypes: the dystopian future; the overreliance on technology; mega-corporations; a constant and overwhelming flow of data; the anti-hero---these elements are integral parts of both genres. And both genres are fueled, to some extent, by the sense of rebellion and desire for individual freedom expressed by the original punk rock revolution. But the main difference---the most important difference---is that while cyberpunk focuses on invasive technological modification of the human body, biopunk explores the dehumanizing consequences of biological modification, of re-arranging our DNA in the pursuit of perfection.
Anderson lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.Anderson himself deems Kingdom as "a thrill-a-minute, bio-punk myth that manages to wrestle with the most pressing issues of the new millennium. O'Donnell has crafted a kickass novel of tomorrow night, when the big party gets raided by the monsters we've been building for the last half-century."
His debut novel, Kingdom, a dystopian, biopunk thriller, is now available in paperback and ebook format. Kingdom is the first part of the Tiber City Trilogy. Look for part two, Exile, in the summer of 2013.
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Thanks for the generous offer! This is a new author for me and I look forward to reading Kingdom.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new baby!