Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Steampunk Novel Ghost in the Machine by SJ Davis.
Ghost in the Machine is a captivating steampunk meets cyberpunk fantasy novel. A gripping story from the beginning to the end.
The Book has been self-published via Steelworks Ink Press and is available as eBook and Paperback - 322 pages - released in February 2015.
About the Book
Josephine, Bodhi, and Caroline, live in a scientifically advanced Victorian London as the Industrial Revolution is in full swing. Infrared goggles, dirigibles, and analog computers exist alongside bustles, parasols, and high tea.
On the grounds of an Old Saxon church, three strange net-runners arrive from a future where everyone is assigned a barcode from the moment of birth. What you buy, what you read, your health care history, your bank accounts, your measured intelligence, are all captured by this barcode and sent to the feed of OmniCorp. Human data mining forms the basis of a massive Industrial Complex, a thinly veiled profit center, based on the control of human behavior.
To interrupt the inception of OmniCorp, the net-runners, a subversive underground group, enlist the aid of the steampunk Victorians to thwart a meeting between two men, who hundreds of years earlier, laid the foundation for OmniCorp.
Extraordinary figures race toward a rendezvous with history, weave in and out of time, fight evil steampunk automatons, hide in Victorian brothels, fight Indian mutinies, and take refuge in dystopian cyberpunk pawnshops, to insure a future where personal privacy is protected over corporate power.
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Reviews (Excerpts)
- "Ghost in the Machine is already my favorite book of 2015 and I can assure you, nothing will be able to beat it. It has everything I look for in a novel. The steampunk masterfully weaves through a riveting plot that had be glued to the pages and up all night. Absolutely phenomenal!" - Emma Michaels
- "This is an amazing book that will take you away to another world from which you will not want to return. It moved along at a great pace, has a story that will WOW you and leave you needing more and characters that you cannot help but fall in love with. This book must be read[...]" - Joy Whiteside
- "[...] I felt completely connected to the characters and their storyline. In my opinion, Ghost In The Machine was written in such a way that you feel more like yo are watching a movie rather than as if you are reading a book. I absolutely love all the different elements of this wonderful masterpiece!" - Barbara Gartman
- "I couldn't put it down. I only give out 5-star reviews sparingly, but this novel deserved it no wonder it's a bestseller. The characters were deep and relatable, the writing was top notch and the pacing of the story was perfect. The story kept me gripped from beginning to end. I would definitely recommend to all steampunk lovers out there!" - Rebecca Weeks
About the Author
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| Author SJ Davis |
Born in Long Island, NY, she was raised in the suburbs of Washington DC and went to school for a very long time (University of Virginia and George Mason University), married an all-around wonderful man, had two kids (smart, funny, full of opinions), moved from Virginia to New Jersey to Philadelphia to Chicago to Detroit, and began her writing career.
She is a believer in passionate romance and love at first sight, an avid tea drinker, a stiletto aficionado, Doc Marten worshiper, punk rock listener, and lover of flip flops and cardigans. She has a terrible sense of direction, loves Twizzlers, and is a Johnny Depp fan-girl.
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Link to the Paperback Ghost in the Machine on Amazon with Excerpt
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