Unity
by Elly Bangs
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"Unity is an astonishing debut, twisty and startling, demonstrating both the disciplined development of a long-gestated project and the raw, dynamic flashes of an author's early work. It shows intense interest in the distance between conversation and communion . . . an absorbing, thrilling ride." —New York Times"A vivid, fascinating, and utterly believable future world . . . Echoes of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon or the Netflix series Sense8." —New York Journal of Books
Danae is show more not only herself. She is concealing a connection to a grieving collective inside of her body. But while she labors as a tech servant in the dangerous underwater enclave of Bloom City, her fractured self cannot mend. In a desperate escape, Danae and her lover Naoto hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to guide them out of the imploding city.
But for Danae to reunify, the three new fugitives will have to flee across the otherworldly beauty of the postapocalyptic Southwest. Meanwhile, Danae's warlord enemy, the Duke, and a strange new foe, the Borrower, already seek them at any price.
Evoking the gritty cyberpunk of Mad Max and the fluid idealism of Sense8, Unity is a spectacular new re-envisioning of humanity. Breakout author Elly Bangs has created an expressive, philosophical, science-fiction thriller that expands upon consciousness itself. Science Fiction. Fiction. show less
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I stayed awake until the wee hours last night in order to finish reading this book. Not because I
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- Original publication date
- 2021
- Dedication
- For N.
- First words
- This is the first thing I remember when I begin to cohere in unity: a woman standing at a railing, perring down into the vats at the final bottom of Bloom City--and a man in a cramped air transport lavatory, watching his refl... (show all)ection in the scuffed plastic mirror point a wave pistol at his own head.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You are me.
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- Goh, Jaymee; Weisman, Jacob
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- Johnson, Kij; Russo, Meredith; Miller, Sam J.; El Akkad, Omar; Gregory, Daryl; Mamatas, Nick (show all 7); ring, dave
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- English
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- English
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