First published 2020
Luce Cannon stands on stage as her music career finally takes off. Her songs play on the radio and she performs at bigger venues each night. Then mass shootings, bombings, and a deadly contagion force the government to close all public gatherings. The show Luce plays tonight becomes the last rock concert ever performed in America. Years later, Rosemary grows up in this locked down world. She lives, learns, and works entirely through Hoodspace virtual reality. As a new talent scout for StageHoloLive, she must venture into the real world for the first time to find musicians playing illegal underground shows. Her job is bringing these artists into the corporate holographic system that now controls all music. But when Rosemary discovers how life could exist outside the virtual cage, she realizes the sanitized digital world isn't enough.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, speculative-fiction, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: America
Period: Present Day, Future
384 pages · Paperback · Head of Zeus