Hi. Over the last three years, I’ve been writing a book. It’s about a post-apocalyptic city in the future, aggressively guided by the ideology that a meaningful life is always better than longevity, or happiness, or a crude moral framework. It has a sex robot in it, a vampiric journalist, and a love story about an exiled assassin, amongst other things.
If you’re sold already, you can buy the paperback here for $8.54 and the Kindle edition here for $4 (UK: print, ebook, CA: ebook, print arriving soon). If you buy the print edition, you can get the ebook for free, DRM-free. Which is neat.
If you need a little more persuading, here’s the blurb:
Two hundred years after a catastrophe that ruined the planet, humanity re-emerges with a whole new purpose and ideology.
In the newly-built city of Stopfordia, a traffic cop is embroiled in a murder mystery. A chef at a diner on the edge of town turns to androids to satisfy his basest desires. An assassin, facing exile, finds her whole life transformed. A farmer finds himself on trial in front of a jury of thousands for a crime of horrific proportions. A journalist, facing unemployment, turns to a life of crime to keep the stories bleeding in. And a sex worker peers behind the curtain, only to discover that life in Stopfordia is not as it seems.
This is the world of Dystopolis: where the pursuit of a perfect life can take you to places you’d never expect to end up.
And here are a couple of things that good people have said about it:
“With Dystopolis, Fraser has imagined something that walks in with a scifi badge on, then sneaks up on you with a pitcher-full of vulnerable, tragic, real life.”
Josh Gaines, author of Clara’s Quilt and Michigan, Ten Cents
“Dystopolis is like what Rod Serling would’ve written at the peak of his career – incisive, insightful, optimistic, and gleefully terrifying all the same.”
Casey Morell, author of Halcyon
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In advance, and maybe a little hopefully: I hope you enjoy it.