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What are your thoughts on this book /lit/?

"In a near future Tokyo, every action—from blinking to sexual intercourse—is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen records their movements from moment to moment, and connects them to the audio-visual overlay of the ImmaNet, so that every inch of this cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting cinematic promotainment.

Amon Kenzaki works as a Liquidator for the Global Action Transaction Authority. His job is to capture bankrupt citizens, remove their BodyBank, and banish them to BankDeath Camps where they are forever cut off from the action-transaction economy. Amon always plays by the rules and is steadily climbing the Liquidation Ministry ladder.

With his savings accumulating and another promotion coming, everything seems to be going well, until he is asked to cash crash a charismatic politician and model citizen, and soon after is charged for an incredibly expensive action called “jubilee” that he is sure he never performed. To restore balance to his account, Amon must unravel the secret of jubilee, but quickly finds himself asking dangerous questions about the system to which he’s devoted his life, and the costly investigation only drags him closer and closer to the pit of bankruptcy."

>> No.6562625

>>6562603

I can't even get through the blurb. All those invented words and concepts, it's just a high concentration soup of pure genre schlock. I'd go cross eyed reading a book full of this.

>> No.6562654

Sounds like an mildly interesting ideas that are likely poorly executed.

>> No.6562687

>>6562603
Here's a rule-of-thumb I've just discovered looking at the blurb: if you can't tell whether it's describing a pop flick or a book, it's trash.

Congrats on getting published.

>> No.6562814

what is a blurb?

>> No.6562880

This looks much smarter and more carefully considered than most sci-fi, actually engaging economic and social concepts of stuff like debt and intellectual property instead of just making cars fly or whatever shit.

Unfortunately the blurb is a word salad of invented terms that completely turns me off. If somebody reads this and says it's good I'll try it, but I'm not encouraged by "BankDeath Camps" and "action-transaction economy."

>> No.6563708

anything that is Book X of the $A Cycle is crap.

>> No.6563731
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6563731

>In a near future Tokyo, every action—from blinking to sexual intercourse—is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees.
i barely cope with society as is. how do you subject yourself to something so horrifying?

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>>6562603
I just got finished reading koko takes a holiday I don't need more of this bullshit

>> No.6563774

>>6562880
Yes it seems very intelligent and well thought out with its groundbreaking premise of 'Da evil corprashuns are gonna make you pay to breathe in the future!'

>> No.6563777

>>6562603
Gibson do it first.

>> No.6563808

>>6563774
I don't think that's quite where they're going with it, but maybe I'm giving it too much credit. It's less about paying to live and more about paying for an extremely broad interpretation of intellectual property.

>> No.6563840

>>6562603

This would interest me if it weren't for the 'book one' thing.

>> No.6563874

>>6562603
Sounds absolutely terrible.
>>6563808
That anon wasn't trying to describe what was happening in the blurb, he was making fun of the overused idea of evil corporations monetizing X thing in the future that is free today.

>> No.6564166

Some one read this and report back to the rest of us.

>> No.6564574

>>6562603
Hello there, \plotofrepoman\; nice of you to join us!

Watch the movie, see Paris Hilton's face fall off due to too much plastic surgery, save yourself the trouble.

>OT
Haven't actually read the book

>> No.6564673

>>6563874
>overused idea of evil corporations monetizing X thing in the future that is free today
What are examples of this? It _sounds_ vaguely trope-y but I've read a fair amount of sci-fi and I can't think of any besides Ubik that have actually done it.

>> No.6565062

>>6563874
>>6564673
That doesn't actually happen much. Usually scifi dealing with cyberpunk-y mega corporations is more nuanced than that in its criticisms of capitalism and monopoly - but you'd have to actually have read it to know that, and /lit/ has maybe sneered at Neuromancer once and that's about it.

Also this sounds kind of interesting but
>book one of the cycle
Fuck that. End it in one book for once.

>> No.6565118

Just read it you fookin queers

>> No.6567021

This book looks like it might give us some dank memes.

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>>6562603
>>6562880
>"strawman destroys society" dystopia #20,416

No thanks

>> No.6567297

>>6562603
>>6565062

>calling your series a "cycle"

jesus christ fuck off

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>>6562603
>BankDeath Camps

>> No.6567318

Economic science fiction hasn't been done right yet.