Glorious Killing Machine - Softcover

Conwell, Lydia

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798227350206

Publisher: Lydia Conwell, 2020

Synopsis

A young woman awakens to find she has been turned into a cyborg. Gaslighted by the assumed normality of her situation she represses her fears and accepts the abuses she is subjected to, compelled to embrace her fate in law enforcement.

Set in a world where individual rights have succumbed to an increasing corporate hegemony, how does one escape corporate rule when one's own body is a tool for corporate rule? With inbuilt AI and preprogrammed abilities, she is an unwilling superhuman; one of many heavily-armed cyborgs that patrol the mostly vacant streets.

Glorious Killing Machine depicts a dark, sexualised synetopian world of abuse, coercion, body horror, and corporate hegemony. It is a world of constant surveillance and diminished personal freedom.

About this title

About the Author

Lydia is an online apparition who frequents the Fediverse and you can follow her there (currently) at: @LydiaConwell@exile.social. She is just some nobody with an art school background, who lives in London, writes stories in her spare time, owns a cat and loves noisy, avant-garde music.

Lydia often writes futurist worlds, which she describes as Synehitopian - that is, a continuation of our current political and technological landscape rather than a strictly dystopian future. Her stories explore manipulation, control and power dynamics, and people's willingness to succumb to the rule of corporate hegemony.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lydia Conwell
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798227350206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374