Please keep in mind that, as this is something that will be going to a publisher, it is the full story of the novel condensed to 2 pages (minus subplots). If you want to read my full novel and don't want to know the ending, then go ahead and skip this one :) However, if you would like to provide feedback on the summary, I would love to know the following:
1. Is it interesting?
2. Does it make you want to pick up the book?
3. Does it have intriguing characters?
4. Is the world vivid enough?
5. Can you tell that it's a near-future, dystopian, sci-fi?
6. Anything else...?
Thanks and happy reading!
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SUMMARY - Rev. 3 (realized it was bigger than 2 pages. So I had to trim it).
It
is the year 2267, less than 100 years since WWIII destroyed democracy and many
parts of the continental United States. The TRIUMVIRATE, the reigning corporate
oligarchy, controls the population with dangerous cybernetic implants. Those
who deny these implants are forced to live in slum cities infested with drug
use and crime.
SAMSON,
a teenage hacker living on the streets, has dreamed of escaping the
corporations and living a life free from the ever-present pressure of
consumerism and greed. When he is hired by a mysterious stranger to hack into a
secure network and steal video footage, he catches the attention of an assassin.
Sam escapes the assassin with the help of MARA, a genetically modified human
known as a savant, but not before the assassin seriously injures him.
Mara
brings Sam, now an amputee, to her headquarters where he becomes part of The
Company, a group of contract killers. Sam shares the data with Mara and they
discover that it contains proof of terrorist attacks performed by other savants
rebelling against the corporations.
Sam
meets the other members of The Company which consists almost entirely of
savants: the Captain and his non-savant brother, a teenage pilot, a former
assassin, a doctor. He also discovers his savant Skill: to see several seconds
into the future.
The
Company is hired to assassinate a prominent member of the Triumvirate in
mega-city of New York. Before they can complete the job, they are exposed to
the Memory Code by the rebels, a genetic implant in all savants that allows
them to experience the memories of their ancestors. During the job, Mara learns
that their mark was an undercover rebel agent, rather than a corporate goon,
but not before she accidentally kills him. Their job bungled, the group
fractures, barely escaping from the security forces of the Triumvirate.
Armed
with the Memories of their ancestors, Sam, Mara, and TRENT, the pilot, flee the
city in search of these revolutionaries who are calling themselves the Starkill
Army. The ordeal in New York has taken a toll on Sam and Mara, physically and
emotionally. Sam’s amputated leg is rejecting the prosthetic and he fights
blood poisoning. Mara wrestles with her conscience over killing a man who
didn’t deserve to die.
Once
at the rebel’s compound, the trio meets the general and his contingent of
soldiers. They also reconnect with the doctor and the former assassin from
their former Company. Here they learn
that the rebels have set up an attack on the Great Sea Wall of California with
the intention of kick-starting a revolutionary war.
Mara
and Sam join the others in planting bombs in the Sea Wall and televising the
event to the world. However, the rebels are betrayed by the former assassin and
suffer heavy casualties even though the destruction of the Sea Wall is
successful. California floods. Sam assists in the rescue mission while Mara
flees the encroaching water, meeting back up with the Captain and Aiden.
Sam
is able to save Trent, though the latter is critically wounded. Mara and the Captain
never return to the rebel compound but the Captain’s brother relays this
information to Sam who assumes, much to his anguish, that Mara is dead. The
Starkill Army slowly begins rebuilding their forces with new recruits drawn by
media attention of the attack.
While
Sam grapples with the loss of his mentor and friend, another member of the
Starkill Army, a former savant-turned-mech named HAWK has come upon a
miraculous discovery. He found that when all of his cybernetic modifications
were forcibly removed during the attack, his savant Skill to read auras
returned. He understands this phenomenon as the return of his humanity. This
belief is taken up by the Starkill Army as a mantra. It becomes the reason why
the savants and those downtrodden by the corporations will continue to fight
against the totalitarian rule of the Triumvirate.
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