Partition
Critical Era
by Kevin Kane
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Pub Date Sep 05 2023 | Archive Date Aug 15 2023
Description
Welcome to the new YOUtopia.
The planet is dying, a mega-corporation controls everything, but at least you don’t have to work another day in your life, not when an Organic AI controls your body every night.
Eric Noble is beginning to realize that nothing makes a Day feel more like a complete waste of space than having all the time in the world. Detective Noble is starting to see the truth that he and the other Nights are nothing more than programmable slaves living inside someone else.
After eight uneasy years of sharing the same body, a chance encounter with an old friend changes everything. Now, Eric’s memory is missing, a woman has been murdered, and if things weren’t bad enough, he’s the prime suspect in his own Night’s homicide investigation.
Two minds, one body, and a society on the knife’s edge, what they do next will determine the fate of both worlds.
Partition: Critical Era is the first installment in Kevin Kane’s sweeping sci-fi mystery series. Prepare to enter a world where humanity and identity are traded in for the worst excesses of techno-capitalism, and the difference between a Brave New World utopia and a 1984 dystopia depends entirely on the time of day.
Advance Praise
"A wild ride that will challenge readers to explore the future of advanced technology and the impact it has on work and life."
"Organic AI takes center stage in the new novel Partition by Kevin Kane."
"Delightful and inventive, this book will keep readers furiously turning pages long into the night."
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Audiobook |
| ISBN | 0410060820230 |
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Featured Reviews
Mx B, Reviewer
Partition built a world that was believable, deep and detailed. Right from the start you begin having remorse for the characters for the decisions they had to make and the lives they are stuck with. If you’re someone who has sympathy for machines like me, this remorse is strong at times. There is also fun tech explanations, action scenes and some gore to keep you hooked.
I will be very excited to continue the adventure into this world if 'Partition' turns into a series. If you enjoy sci-fi, dystopian futures, AI stories or adventures I definitely recommend this book.
I also must mention the narrator, as William DeMeritt did an amazing job bringing this story to life. He was a great match to the character range.
Bex H, Reviewer
“Days die. Nights are deleted.”
This is a read that will stay with me long after I finished it. The grimdark sci-fi themes were done well and with purpose. Kane has created a world not too distant from our own today with a dystopian spin. Readers who are not used to the sci-fi genre may find the navigation of tech-jargon as a learning curve, but I will urge that it is much like any other practice, it gets easier the more you do it. The plot is complex with layers to work through and when it all clicks it is like a neuron firing, with an exuberant “ahh-ha!”
Initially I wagered I was reading a typical murder-mystery/sci-fi story, and it evolved into a scope far greater and more profound. I am a sci-fi fanatic through and through and love when a story unapologetically takes a plunge into what-ifs of the human experience, and what at the core of it all it means ‘to be human’.
Kane has a sharp wit to their prose and catches you with expertly timed one liners that make you laugh and others that make you go, ‘whoa’. Loved the pop-culture references and the diversity of characters within.
The narrator, William DeMeritt, added a lot of life to the dialogue and prose allowing for the listener to know when there was a different person talking and when a POV changed. I enjoyed their performance very much. (I read alongside the audiobook and it really immersed me into YOUtopia). This is a book with many adult themes and content, personally I felt it was a pleasure to read.
Much gratitude to NetGalley and Literature and Lattes Publishing for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
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