Real Powers: Part One (Volume 1)

Colin Wright

ISBN 10: 1938793102 / ISBN 13: 9781938793103

Published by Asymmetrical Press February 2013, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Real Powers: Part One (Volume 1)
• Publisher: Asymmetrical Press February 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1938793102
• ISBN 13: 9781938793103
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Synopsis

This is the 2nd Edition of Real Powers: Part One, updated January, 2014.It's 2027, and as the global economy shifts from unprecedented prosperity into harsh decline, the world's experts struggle to understand why. A young blogger discovers a device with a hidden purpose. An idealistic journalist upends her career by targeting the people who own the news. A master media manipulator questions his work and takes on a challenging new client. An energy tycoon bristles as her powerful position is challenged. A technologist-turned-cult leader questions his own faith. A burgeoning hacktivist group makes headlines around the world, their intentions unclear. And spurred by events he doesn't fully understand, an unaccomplished young man born into a political dynasty decides to shatter convention to take his rightful place in the world.

About the Author

Colin Wright is the author of the popular political/technological thriller trilogy, Real Powers, which follows a cultural shockwave after the introduction of a new technology on the global stage. He also wrote the serialized A Tale of More series, which tells the story of a young man with two voices in his head who's pulled into a conflict between feuding groups involved in a human augmentation movement. Then there's Ordovician, in which a time traveling historian athlete must compete with others from his time period to act out the roles of historical figures to ensure the continuity of his utopian civilization.

Colin has also written numerous short story collections, including So This Is How I Go (stories about death), Coffee with the Other Man (stories about relationships), and 7 or 8 Ways to End the World (stories about endings).

A full-time traveler and entrepreneur, Colin blogs at Exile Lifestyle, a site where his readers vote on which country he should move to next, and has written numerous books about his travels (including Iceland India Interstate) and about business (including Networking Fundamentals).