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Fleshers: Book One of Newport City Kindle Edition

by Alison Croggon (Author), Daniel Keene (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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"I've got all the feelings. And feelings are trouble."

Dez is different from the other fleshers struggling to survive in the outskirts of Newport. She’s a living quantum computer, the missing link between human and artificial intelligence.

If Newport City OpSec knew about her abilities, she’d be dead meat. And when she accidentally kills a cop during a routine raid, everything begins to unravel.

From award winning writers Alison Croggon and Daniel Keene comes Newport City, a duology of resistance, rebellion and love in a future not so far from our own.

”The coolest science fiction I've read in years - if cyberpunk dystopian SF is your jam, I highly recommend this amazing book.” - Ellie Marney

“A vividly imagined post-collapse story, anchored by a sharp understanding of the ways imperfect people confront an oppressive government.” - Kate Elliott

“A book that draws readers through an action-packed, multi-layered narrative and will leave them with the desire to learn more about the complex and unusual characters.” - Books+Publishing

What readers are saying about Fleshers:

"Quantum perfection." 5 stars

"Gritty, fast-paced, intelligent dystopian sci-fi. An intense and satisfying ride." 5 stars

"Fleshers is a story about systemic racism. Fleshers is a story about queer folx who are searching for their safe place. Fleshers is a story about police brutality. Fleshers is a story about protests and riots and oppressed peoples fighting back. Fleshers is a gift of a novel." 5 stars

“I find inventive world building and fresh characters hard to resist, and Fleshers offers plenty of both.” 5 stars
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"Fleshers holds a mirror to current societal disparities and ugly elitism, not unlike young adult novels The Hunger Games and Divergent...A book that draws readers through an action-packed, multi-layered narrative and will leave them with the desire to learn more about the complex and unusual characters." - Books+Publishing

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About the Author

Alison Croggon is a novelist, poet, librettist and critic. She is the author of the popular and critically acclaimed fantasy series The Books of Pellinor, published in Australia, the UK, the US and across Europe. The Books of Pellinor was re-released by Candlewick Books in the US in 2017 with the publication of a fifth book, The Bone Queen, an Aurealis Awards finalist. Other internationally published novels include Black Spring (shortlisted for the 2014 NSW Premier's Award) and The River and the Book (shortlisted for the 2016 WA Premier's Award and winner of the Wilderness Society's Environmental Writing for Children Award). Her opera libretti have been performed on major stages across Australia. The libretto for Mayakovsky (score Michael Smetanin) was shortlisted for the 2015 Victorian Premiers Prize for Drama, and The Riders (score Iain Grandage) was awarded the Vocal/Choral Work of the Year in the 2015 Australian Arts Music Awards. Other awards include the 2009 Geraldine Pascal Critic of the Year for her performance criticism, and the Dame Mary Gilmore and Anne Elder Prizes for poetry. alisoncroggon.com

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07C7K57ZM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Newport Street Books (June 1, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1765 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 356 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0648067661
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Alison Croggon is the award winning author of the acclaimed fantasy series The Books of Pellinor, an Amazon Top Ten Teen Read. You can sign up to her monthly newsletter and receive a free Pellinor story at alisoncroggon.com. She is also the co-author with Daniel Keene of the Newport City science fiction dystopia Fleshers, Book One of the Newport City series.

The latest Pellinor book, The Bone Queen, was a 2016 Aurealis Awards Best Young Adult Book finalist. Other fantasy titles include Black Spring (shortlisted for the Young People's Writing Award in the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) and The River and the Book, winner of the Wilderness Society's prize for Environmental Writing for Children.

She is a prize-winning poet, and has released seven collections of poems. As a critic she was named Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year in 2009. She also writes opera libretti, and the opera she co-wrote with Iain Grandage was Vocal/Choral Work of the Year in the 2015 Art Music Awards. Her libretto for Mayakovsky, score by Michael Smetanin, was shortlisted in the Drama Prize for the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. She lives in Melbourne.

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praetor1983
5.0 out of 5 stars quantum perfection
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018
The combination of husband-and-wife team (brilliant Daniel Keene and incomparable Alison Croggon) and a fully-realized dystopian world is the read you didn't know you needed.

Archetypes, tropes, expectations and realizations are played with in such an original manner that you get lost in the truly-awe-inspiring world of Fleshers. Imperfect, flawed people (whether artificial or bio-born) are what make a story interesting and attention grabbing; heroes who aren't perfect, but try regardless and Fleshers has such absolutely believable characters that you find yourself (or maybe it's just me) mumbling arguments and conversations with their justifications and dilemmas.

I cannot recommend this (or its forthcoming sequel) enough!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2019
Great book filled with intriguing characters in a creative as fascinating environment.
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Elizabeth
5.0 out of 5 stars Gritty, fast-paced, intelligent dystopian sci-fi.
Reviewed in Australia on September 5, 2018
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An intense and satisfying ride. The setting for this YA dystopian sci-fi is a city walled off by the Veil. The environment outside is full of deadly airborne viruses, which either destroy you instantly or modify you forever as they splice with your DNA. Sixteen-year-old Dez, the daughter of the family at the centre of the story, has experienced the devastating effects of exposure to the rogue nanobots. My favourite of the characters, Dez, is flawed and real, as gritty as the world she inhabits.

Told in a clear, easy to read style, from the point of view of two fleshers (those born through natural reproduction) and one pinker (clone), the plot unfolds at a fast pace with some scenes verging on horror as the characters encounter grotesque manifestations of the damage wrought through toxicity. However their struggles are interspersed with plenty of warm family moments and camaraderie.

The authors have taken the tech of today and imagined what a future might hold if development continues apace without safeguards – especially for those at the poorer end of society. What I found most shocking was that what we may have dismissed as wild imagination twenty years ago edges closer to the realm of possibility. A timely and thought-provoking read which I can easily imagine up on the big screen.
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Rachel
5.0 out of 5 stars An unforgettable series starter - I loved it
Reviewed in Australia on July 18, 2018
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Wow. This book was amazing. The dystopian futuristic world this story was set in was so fascinating and felt so real. I connected deeply with the characters - Dez and her brother Bo, and Brian Mac a corrupt cop who doesn't belong in their world but who holds secrets to their past and might help save them from the forces he's been engineered to serve. I was gripped by the action, moved by the emotion, and completely drawn in by the mysteries which have only begun to be uncovered. The stakes in this series are enormously high and the authors don't throw any punches - this is a world in which people live with daily repression and face the threat of genocide based on their being genetically impure. I haven't even begun to capture all the things I loved about this book. If you like gritty, dark dystopian cyberpunk with fantastic characters and deep worldbuilding, you should read this book!!! Can't wait for the next one in the series.
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