Implanted

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Pub Date 7 Aug 2018 | Archive Date 19 Jul 2018

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Description

The data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink... or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thriller

Shortlisted for the 2019 Compton Crook Award for best first Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Novel

When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she's cut off from the neural implant community which binds the domed city of New Worth together. Her new employers exploit her rare condition which allows her to carry encoded data in her blood, and train her to transport secrets throughout the troubled city. New Worth is on the brink of Emergence - freedom from the dome - but not everyone wants to leave. Then a data drop goes bad, and Emery is caught between factions: those who want her blood, and those who just want her dead.

2018 SFR Galaxy Award Winner — a “standout” book in Science Fiction Romance

File Under: Science Fiction [ Under the Dome | Blood Courier | Disconnected | Bright Future ]
The data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink... or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thriller

Shortlisted for the 2019 Compton Crook Award for best first Science...

Advance Praise

“Lauren C Teffeau brings us a fully-realized world filled with conflict, drama, and insight.”
– Walter Jon Williams, multiple-award-winning author of Hardwired and the Praxis series

Implanted takes readers to the bleeding edge of a hopeful future and dives headlong into the risks required to make that future real. Emery is a character I loved from the start for her skills and flaws both, and Teffeau takes this ultra-high-tech future to new heights and depths with incredible skill. Such a great adventure!”
 Fran Wilde, Hugo and Nebula finalist and Andre Norton-winning author of the Bone Universe series

“Futuristic intrigue solidly rooted in intricate, multi-level worldbuilding – spiced with just a touch of romance – singles Lauren C Teffeau’s Implanted out from the cyberpunk pack.”
 Jane Lindskold, New York Times bestselling author of Through Wolf’s Eyes

“Teffeau serves up the future and it’s entertaining and scary!  The arms race of hackers and blockers goes to new heights, in an intriguing tale of life in the non-utopic automated cities of the future.”
– S M Stirling, New York Times bestselling author of Black Chamber and The Sky-Blue Wolves 

“Imaginative and thrilling, IMPLANTED features a truly unique premise, characters you’ll want to root for, and a fascinating, fully-realized future.”
– Lori M Lee, author of Gates of Thread and Stone and The Infinite

“Lauren C Teffeau brings us a fully-realized world filled with conflict, drama, and insight.”
– Walter Jon Williams, multiple-award-winning author of Hardwired and the Praxis series

Implanted takes...


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Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780857667991
PRICE CA$15.99 (CAD)
PAGES 400

Average rating from 16 members


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Sometimes when I finish a book and want to collect my thoughts I have a brief look at other people's reviews. When I did this I discovered people classing this book as 'cyberpunk' a term I was unfamiliar with though on doing some research I have discovered that this term includes films such as Blade Runner and The Matrix, both of which I have watched and enjoyed, so now I know more about it it's less of a surprise that I enjoyed this book. For those of you who don't know the term cyberpunk, the definition I found states that it's futuristic science fiction combined with advanced technology and breakdown or change of the social order.
This definition fits Implanted perfectly as we have the majority of people in New Worth with implants which help them communicate and engage with their surroundings, combined with a desire by the whole community to leave the dome and return to the outside world once it is again habitable. This is contrasted by the Disconnects, those who don't have implants for various reasons and are shunned by the implanted people as they are seen as inferior because they don't conform with societal norms. 

In the story we follow Emery who is blackmailed into becoming a courier, carrying data in her blood and delivering it to all parts of the city.  One of these deliveries goes wrong, she is unable to deliver the data, leaving her in the city with valuable information in her blood and unable to know who to trust. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was one of those that is hard to put down. Every time I had a spare few minutes I would pick it up and start reading again because it was that addictive. It's a fairly straightforward story but when you add in the technology and the fact that everyone lives in a dome, because in the past the planet was ruined and it was unsafe to live outside, then you add some new perils and it puts a completely different spin on the whole story.  

The descriptions were spot on, it was really clearly written which I loved. I felt claustrophobic every time Emery went down in the dome to the areas where there are less or no daylight and very relieved when she came back up again. Although we have inequality in many countries the majority of us are still, at least, able to see the sky and breathe fresh air. I can't imagine how society would work if that were to change. In the story there is, understandably, a difference of opinion between the implanted and the disconnects and it was easy to see the perspective of both sides.  

I've always loved sci-fi, more tv than books, but I'm trying to expand my reading of sci-fi and fantasy and happily Angry Robot books are supplying the most fabulous books in order for me to be able to do this, and this book is no exception. Even if you don't think science-fiction is your thing, if you like stories that have differences in society, heirarchical groups and stories that make you question what you believe then this is worth a read.  It'll make you wonder whether the technological advances that we have at the moment are going to lead to the world imagined here or not and whether that is a good thing. A fabulous read and an author that I am excited to see more from!

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