She's forced to take up with her father's former associates known as The Fancy Suits in an effort to keep one particular self-styled supervillain named Molech from gaining access to her father's most closely guarded secret a secret that, in the wrong hands, could lead to the end of civilization. See, Arthur's dead, and it seems that there's only one way to gain access to his mysterious vault through Zoey.Īnd so she becomes a target for good guys and bad guys alike. Her cat is incredibly smelly.īut when it turns out that Zoey's sketchy deadbeat father is Arthur Livingston, the incredibly wealthy progenitor of the lawless high-tech desert city of Tabula Ra$a (and yes, that really is a dollar sign), her life becomes considerably more complicated. Her dead-end barista job is providing her with just enough to get by. She and her useless humanities degree are sleeping on a futon at her stripper mom's place in the trailer park. It is a world of ever more elaborate advertising campaigns for ever-simpler products. Anything goes when it comes to attracting viewers to one's video feed as provided by the omnipresent Blink cameras. It is a world of omnipresent social media, where everyone is desperately seeking the spotlight. It's the future a future that looks very much like the present, only more so. Now, making science fiction funny, well that's a whole different kettle of fish.ĭavid Wong brought humor and horror together with his books 'John Dies at the End' and 'This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It.' His latest effort 'Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits' (Thomas Dunne, $26.99) - attempts to bring his particular mixture of profanity and profundity to a brand new genre.

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