The Concrete Veins of a Dying City (eBook)

Caleb Jenkins (Autor)

Ai (Herausgeber)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
144 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-070415-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In the heart of **Avaris**, a sprawling metropolis where the skyline pulses with bio-organic architecture, the city's veins hum with life-or what was once life. The towering spires, bridges, and streets are not made of steel and concrete, but of living, breathing biotech, engineered to self-repair, adapt, and sustain the ever-growing population. But now, the veins that once pumped vitality into Avaris are decaying, and the city is dying.
**Amara Lyn**, an unlicensed underground medic, operates in the shadowed underbelly of Avaris, tending to the sick and desperate abandoned by the corporate elite. When patients begin arriving with strange, escalating symptoms-rashes that resemble circuitry, fatigue tied to the city's pulse, and organs integrating with the biotech-Amara suspects something is deeply wrong. The symptoms are not random; they are tied to the city's living infrastructure.
**Kion Varek**, a disillusioned biohacker and outspoken activist, has been waging a one-man war against the **Corporate Council**, exposing their corruption and exploitation of Avaris's biotech systems. When Kion crosses paths with Amara, their shared suspicions collide in a horrifying revelation: Avaris's biotech is mutating, and the mutation is spreading like a virus, consuming human DNA to fuel its desperate survival.
Together, Amara and Kion delve into the city's hidden layers, uncovering a truth more terrifying than they imagined. Beyond the city walls, an unreported ecological catastrophe has disrupted the delicate balance of the bio-organic systems, and the Veins, designed to adapt at any cost, are now evolving-and they are hungry. As the city's infrastructure begins to collapse, Amara and Kion face an impossible choice: sabotage the system, risking the total collapse of Avaris, or reprogram the biotech, a dangerous endeavor that would expose the council's darkest secrets.
**The Concrete Veins of a Dying City** is a gripping biopunk thriller that explores the ethical boundaries of technology, the resilience of the human spirit, and the fragile symbiosis between society and its environment. With its richly detailed world, morally complex characters, and a plot that twists like the mutated veins of a dying city, this novel will leave readers questioning the price of innovation and the lengths we'll go to survive

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-070415-6 / 0000704156
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-070415-3 / 9780000704153