Hot Ash and the Oasis Defect – Philip Wyeth 


 

“Robots and exowombs and hemp, oh my!”

Welcome to 2045. Automation has freed humanity from the drudgery and limitations of blue-collar labor. For twenty years, a remarkable group of female bureaucrats has overseen an ambitious construction program that is spreading equity, prosperity, and peace worldwide.

But Detective Ashley Westgard of the Jacksonville Police Corps senses that beneath all the glimmer and shine, a new malaise has taken root in society. From brazen acts of criminality and rampant party pill abuse, to her own insatiable desires... All is not well on the road to paradise.

Ash is beautiful, vain, headstrong, and erratic. A symbol of her time as she careens from impulsive shopping sprees to drunken fights to escapades of sin. But now that a methodical killer is on the loose, she must rise above apathy and doubt in order to forge her raging inner fire into a fearsome weapon of justice.

Philip Wyeth’s crazy fifth novel is imaginative, hilarious, sexy, and poignant. It will dazzle fans of Bruce Sterling’s “Schismatrix,” Neal Stephenson's “Snow Crash,” “Blade Runner,” and women who kick ass!

“Once you get that nano crawling through you... You feel alive!”

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Subgenres: Artificial Intelligence, Crime & Mystery, Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Humorous, Techno Thriller

Date first published:  May 20, 2019

On Kindle Unlimited: No

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilipWyeth

Website: https://philipwyeth.com/

Biography: Philip Wyeth's writing is imaginative and intense! His fully immersive speculative stories explore what might happen if people actually got everything they say they wanted—politically, technologically, or socially. Relatable characters, polished prose, and outrageous spectacles ensure that readers are entertained along the way, no matter how high-concept the ideas being explored might be. Inspired by such unique writers as Heinrich von Kleist, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, and Len Deighton, Wyeth's explosive novels will resonate with fans of Philip K. Dick, Harry Harrison, Robert Sheckley, George Orwell, Michel Houellebecq, and Neal Stephenson. Also a lifelong fan of heavy metal music and its many sub-genres, Wyeth strives to infuse his work with comparable levels of independence and larger-than-life visions.

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