Author Kornher-Stace’s adult science fiction debut—Firebreak— is loaded with ambitious challenges and a city to save/5(). · Author Kornher-Stace’s adult science fiction debut—Firebreak— is loaded with ambitious challenges and a city to save.3/5(1). · Firebreak is a book that completely took me by surprise by how much intensity, heart, and hope it had wrapped up in an action-packed, highly engaging story. At the outset, Firebreak appears to be a story about a VR gamer stuck working multiple jobs just to get by in a world where water is scarce to come by and essentially owned by an enormous corporate company.
Nicole Kornher-Stace is the author of the Norton Award finalist Archivist Wasp and its sequel, Latchkey. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, and Fantasy Magazine, as well as many anthologies. She lives in New Paltz, New York, with her family. She can be found online at www.doorway.ru, or on Twitter @WireWalking. Kornher-Stace leads readers through the cinematic landscape of her imagined future with an expert hand." The Little Red Reviewer says: "Firebreak is one of the best books I've read this year. Nicole Kornher-Stace is the best author you haven't read yet. I love her books so much that I force my husband to read them. Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace. Like everyone else she knows, Mallory is an orphan of the corporate war. As a child, she lost her parents, her home, and her entire building in an airstrike. As an adult, she lives in a cramped hotel room with eight other people, all of them working multiple jobs to try to afford water and make ends meet. And.
Hypercapitalism threatens individual liberty in Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Firebreak, where two megacorporations have all but replaced the American government and control essential natural resources. Mal and her best friend Jessa live in the slums outside New Liberty City, a super megapolis constructed to accommodate climate refugees, but ruled by two warring corporations. Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace is very much the latter for me. This book certainly wasn’t the first time I got to see aro/ace rep in a book, but there was one aspect to it that I hadn’t seen before: the friendship/platonic crush. Oh wow, did I feel seen. Nicole Kornher-Stace lives in New Paltz, NY, with her family. Her two most recent books are the adult SF cyberpunk dystopian thriller FIREBREAK (Simon Schuster/Gallery/Saga, ) and her middle-grade debut JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET (Tachyon, ).
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