num_pages: 304
description: Evoking the grittiness of Mad Max and the idealism of Sense8 this absorbing sci-fi debut is a dynamic vision of the fluidity of identity. With Unity breakout author Elly Bangs has created a prescient moving and unforgettable adventure that expands upon human consciousness and its possibilities.Imagine Neuromancer and Liliths Brood conceived a baby while listening to My Chemical Romance and then that baby was adopted by Ghost in the Shell and Blue Submarine no. 6. The babys name is Unity.Meredith Russo author of If I Were Your GirlDanae a tech servant in the underwater enclave of Bloom City is haunted by a grief that cannot be contained in a single body. But while in the city her fractured self cannot be returned to the larger collective of beings to whom she once belonged.Unable to tolerate separation any longer Danae plans to escape the city with her lover Naoto. Just in time to avoid disaster they hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to guide them.But returning to Danaes home means fleeing across the otherworldly beauty of the postapocalyptic Southwest. Meanwhile an old stalker has picked up her trail and a new foe has put a bounty on her head.Unbeknownst to any of them Danae Alexi and Naoto are also in their own pursuitof a completely new configuration of mutual understanding.
language: English
title: Unity
publisher: Tachyon Publications