Models and Citizens

by Andrew Sweet

Overview

A genetically altered clone. A college graduate. And it's a long way to Canada...

Harper Rawls struggles to come to grips with her parents' deaths - but it's not going well. Accompanying her guilt and inadequacy, she's somehow gained the attention of an anti-cloning extremist organization. Out of "respect for her father", they now watch her every move.

Ordell Bentley flees violence at the hands of the same group. Death stalks him through the nascent jungles near League City, Texas as he makes his way to his lover's house to warn her that they've been discovered, only to find her daughter Harper instead.

The only escape is through the mid-western desert to the north, and Ordell has no food, no money, and no transportation. Hunted by the HPM and an unseen stalker, and plagued by a corporate-sponsored bounty that creeps steadily upward, the future is bleak...

Models and Citizens takes place in a dystopian future where the climate has moved on, taking with it the jobs and dreams of the people. Models, genetically altered clones like Ordell, work the jobs others won't, and are hated for it, but since escape means death, most suffer in silence.

A cross between Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Bladerunner (based on Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), this novel entertains from the first paragraph to the last sentence as Harper and Ordell struggle to survive in a post-climate change world. If you loved Atropos by John Lapuntich, you will enjoy this gripping thrill ride.

Models and Citizens is an action-packed rollercoaster of a novel that moves at a breakneck speed and leaves you asking for more. - Reader's Favorite (5 - stars)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663584465
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/29/2021
Series:	Reality Gradient , #1
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Andrew Sweet holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Computer Science in Bioinformatics. He has been engineering software for over twenty years and grounds his science fiction in present-day science fact. Charles’ writing focuses on high-concept scenarios with well-defined characters to whom readers can relate.

Andrew grew up in Texas, in a small town like many of his characters, but currently resides just outside of Seattle, Washington, with his wife and two children who consume most of his non-writing time. Any additional available time he spends playing guitar or programming, not necessarily in that order.

Publications:
Authentication, privacy, and security can exploit brainwaves by smartphone—invited scientific paper at SPIE.DSS.
A Handful of Sweets by The Sweet Family - a collection of short stories.

Recent Influences:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Severance by Ling Ma
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
The Three-Body Problem by Cizin Liu