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Rise of the Red Hand
Rise of the Red Hand | Olivia Chadha
9 posts | 3 read | 6 to read
A rare, searing portrayal of the future of climate change in South Asia. A streetrat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down a ruthlessly technocratic government that sacrifices its poorest citizens to build its utopia. The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs. Ashiva works for the Red Hand, an underground network of revolutionaries fighting the government, which is run by a merciless computer algorithm that dictates every citizen’s fate. She’s a smuggler with the best robotic arm and cybernetic enhancements the slums can offer, and her cargo includes the most vulnerable of the city’s abandoned children. When Ashiva crosses paths with the brilliant hacker Riz-Ali, a privileged Uplander who finds himself embroiled in the Red Hand’s dangerous activities, they uncover a horrifying conspiracy that the government will do anything to bury. From armed guardians kidnapping children to massive robots flattening the slums, to a pandemic that threatens to sweep through the city like wildfire, Ashiva and Riz-Ali will have to put aside their differences in order to fight the system and save the communities they love from destruction.
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Bookish_Viking
Rise of the Red Hand | Olivia Chadha
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Coming across several errors, about 3 or 4 wrong words in 60 pages, minor things. Enjoying the book though.

Armentrouts books, especially the FFBA and Flesh and Fire series' I've seen several punctuation errors. Usually a missing quotation mark ending a dialogue line. Found a quotation mark error in all three of the FBAA books and the Shadow book.

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SilverShanica
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I know three things: (1) I am a prisoner of Solace Corporation; (2) I‘ll be sent to containment without trial; (3) According to my Info-Tun, the rate of survival in containment is 0.0001%.

#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl

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SilverShanica
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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 299.
#bookstoread
#tbrpile
#bookstagram

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LibrarianRyan
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So I have said lots how much I love Bookshop.org. I don‘t always love their shipping. Sometimes things take forever. I finally got my preorder of the pictures book. I also got the Guilded Ones which mailed a week later. I‘m going to have two copies of that book because I‘m pretty sure it‘s in my monthly subscription. So my nephew cobbed in to it. #bookhaul

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Kaylamburson
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Officially publishes Feb 2nd, and I just finished the ARC of this Southeast Asian #ownvoices dystopian sci-fi. The problems embedded into this fictional society are topical and resonate a bit too close to home--climate change destroying the world (the rich protected it from it while the poor suffer in the immense heat and famine), a pandemic, and political unrest. Slow to kick off but the action picks up in the second half. #doublespin

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 3y
LibrarianRyan I can't wait for my copy to come in. It was a January Pre-order. 3y
Kaylamburson I hope you love it, @LibrarianRyan ! I'll be curious to your thoughts once you get a chance to read it. 3y
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LibrarianRyan
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This cyberpunk south Asian novel is my Preorder for the month of January.

There is something about the apple or the orb in her hand that gives me snow white feels (but as far as i know it has nothing to do with snow white). I am really looking forward to this one.

Out Jan 18
#CoverLove #YAedition

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LibrarianRyan
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recently author Eric Smith posted a yearly list of books to preorder. He chooses one book a month. He said he got it from Dana Simpson. I thought it was such a good idea I decided to jump on the band wagon. So above you see my 9 months of books (I couldn‘t make a year). I couldn‘t find anything right now for May so I double dipped In April. Okay I also added sprinkles in April too. Plus one classic for the year.

What is on your pre-order list?

BookishMarginalia For me, May would be the new Taylor Jenkins Reid: https://taylorjenkinsreid.com/books/malibu-rising/ 3y
Larkken I think I am excited about Andy Weir‘s new book in May, but not sure yet if it beats out the tagged book by AM Strickland... 3y
LibrarianRyan @BookishMarginalia I have yet to read them. I think I may need to try for an audiobook. One good thing about my WHF project, it‘s mind numbing enough to listen to audiobooks. 3y
LibrarianRyan @Larkken that looks interesting. 3y
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Kaylamburson
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Here's my bingo card for my first attempt of #bookspinbingo! Let's see how this goes!
@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looks great!! 3y
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LibrarianRyan
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Another book that the cover drew me in. Is it space epic, or maybe not. too soon to tell.

Out January 19

#CoverLove
#YAedition

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