Synopsis:
"The Yiddish Policeman’s Union meets The Windup Girl when a
female PI goes up against a ruthless gangster—just as both humans and
robots agitate for independence in an Argentinian colony in
Antarctica.In Argentine Antarctica, Eliana Gomez is the only female PI
in Hope City—a domed colony dependent on electricity (and maintenance
robots) for heat, light, and survival in the icy deserts of the
continent. At the center is an old amusement park—now home only to the
androids once programmed to entertain—but Hope City’s days as a tourist
destination are long over. Now the City produces atomic power for the
mainland while local factions agitate for independence and a local
mobster, Ignacio Cabrera, runs a brisk black-market trade in illegally
imported food. Eliana doesn’t care about politics. She doesn’t even
care—much—that her boyfriend, Diego, works as muscle for Cabrera. She
just wants to save enough money to escape Hope City. But when an
aristocrat hires Eliana to protect an explosive personal secret, Eliana
finds herself caught up in the political tensions threatening to tear
Hope City apart. In the clash of backstabbing politicians, violent
freedom fighters, a gangster who will stop at nothing to protect his
interests, and a newly sentient robot underclass intent on a very
different independence, Eliana finds her job coming into deadly conflict
with Diego’s, just as the electricity that keeps Hope City from
freezing begins to fail…"
(Tor re-issue)
Synopsis:
"Let the secret history of the world be told-of the alien virus that
struck Earth after World War II, and of the handful of the survivors who
found they now possessed superhuman powers. Some were called Aces,
endowed with powerful mental and physical prowess. The others were
Jokers, tormented by bizarre mind or body disfigurements. Some served
humanity. Others caused terror. And now, forty years later, as a gang
war between the Shadow Fists and the mafia rages out of control in the
streets of Jokertown, Aces and Jokers go underground-to wage their own
war against the powers of the netherworld."
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