AUGMENT HUMAN SERVICES eBook PHIL ELMORE JOHNNY ATOMIC DEANNA HOAK
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Augments They're the plague of the modern world, a deviant class of cyborg surgery addicts who've been herded into ghettos for the safety of those still legally human. As tensions in the tech ghetto rise, David Chalmers, an agent for Human Services, is sent behind the walls on a routine extraction. What he discovers is a helpless young woman maimed by unthinkable implant technology... and a murder, for which Chalmers is promptly framed.
Hunted by assassins and wanted by his own government, Chalmers must peel back the layers of a conspiracy without losing his own humanity to a back-alley surgeon's knife -- but first, alone and unarmed, he must survive the tech ghetto itself.
AUGMENT HUMAN SERVICES eBook PHIL ELMORE JOHNNY ATOMIC DEANNA HOAK
Phil Elmore has found his voice with authority in this story and he is sharper than ever. He paints a picture of a grim future in which trans-humanism has run amok and the cyberpunk theme is presented with a raw unsettling sense of anxiety and paranoia.I was unable to put the story down after I started. It moves at a frantic pace. Chalmers, the main character is our eyes in a world full of despotic government, trans human freaks and unseen forces manipulating it all.
There are several awesome, cringe worthy moments in the story in which I found myself tensing up as I read them. Phil manages to take us to a dystopian setting rife with tensions boiling under the surface. He paints a picture of a strange subculture that leaves us alienated, disturbed and wanting more. He drops us in a story that is frantic in it's pace, disturbing in it's palpable sense of forboding symbolism and satisfying in it's kick ass delivery of gritty action.
Can't wait for the second installment.
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AUGMENT HUMAN SERVICES eBook PHIL ELMORE JOHNNY ATOMIC DEANNA HOAK Reviews
Phil Elmore has a unique voice. Why so many 5star ratings and similar reviews? Because Elmore writes in a straight-forward, non-judgmental fashion that allows you to see and enjoy his vision clearly. I couldn't put this story down; it's unpleasant and unsettling because Elmore thinks about hard choices we make to better our lives, and the true extent bad folks will go to protect ill-gotten gain. One of the more thought-provoking pieces of fiction I've read this year. Please do yourself a favor and let Elmore's imagination run wild in your head.
Phil Elmore slams us into a dirty cyberpunk world that shares much in common with both William Gibson and Clive Barker. I would classify this as techno-horror rather than pure action or sci-fi, though it certainly has elements of each. The action is violent. The descriptions of "mods" (augmented humans) blend the most horrific elements of H.R. Giger and Heironymus Bosch. Definitely not for those with a low tolerance for violence or gore. This novella is the first part of the story, and ends on a cliff-hanger with the main character still needing to solve the greater part of the mystery. I'll definitely be reading future installments.
First rate cyberpunk as gritty in mein, but razor sharp in execution as possible. Elmore paints murals at once horrifying and beautiful, enthralling and repulsive that such a world could easily exist. As in the very best exemplars of the genre by Stirling, Gibson and Stephenson, it's at once an accessible universe, but one alien enough that you feel as if you're walking, chin deep through cybernetic suspension fluids. Society has fragmented and splintered, balkanized between layers of personal augmentation - and a study of addiction not too far removed from today's "modern primitives" and their body modification addictions.
Chalmers is a great protagonist, and the mix of wit, social commentary, violence and technowonders/technohorrors is a heady rush.
I require two things from science fiction, plausible science and interesting characters. Phil Elmore delivers this and more in his first Sci-Fi tale. Pick up a copy of AUGMENT HUMAN SERVICES and enter a dark, dystopian future that is equal parts “Blade Runner” and “Frankenstein”. The tale begins by introducing Agent David Chalmers of the Human Services department on a ‘routine’ investigation in the Tech Ghetto, where all the ‘Ogs’ (people that have had significant or total body augmentations) live. This is anything but routine as Agent Chalmers finds himself embroiled in a dangerous series of events far beyond his experience. Phil Elmore’s narrative paints an entirely realistic picture in which you not only feel the physical hardship of our protagonist but the bruised psyche of a broken society. The action comes thick and fast making this easy to read and hard to put down. I’m eagerly looking forward to the next book in this new series.
Defining humanity is always a tricky proposition. Science fiction novels over the decades have grappled with the dilemma of what makes us human. The genre often uses body modification as a means to explore this question as well as to tell a good story. Augment Human Services by Phil Elmore uses the question to set up the opening chapter of a potentially lengthy serial work. The novella presents a future where humanity is rigidly defined by society. On the fringes of this society, not everything is concisely defined.
If I had to label Augment Human Services under any concepts it would be cyberpunk. One of the aesthetics of cyberpunk, where physical modification augments and destroys human identification is present throughout the story. In this way, Augment Human Services is in the same territory as stories like Ghost in the Shell. Elmore makes excellent use of vivid imagery, solid description, and character to define where the line is drawn by society and where it is drawn by the lead character. David Chalmers is an agent of the government, sworn to defend the normal humans from the Oggies, a term used to describe humans who have undergone severe cybernetic surgeries. These Oggies are denizens of their own ghetto, separated because their augmentations aren’t just replacement limbs but often full body transformations. The descriptions of Oggies who have transformed into beast-like cyborgs are chilling and masterfully written. To describe Oggies as alien is both completely true and barely scratching the surface.
Chalmers is an honest cop but a brutal one. Considering the setting, brutality is not only necessary, it is inescapable. Elmore writes him with the no-nonsense moral clarity one finds in characters like Jack Reacher or John McClane. He’s the kind of character you could picture doing no other job than the one given in the story. The author uses Chalmers to show the abhorrent nature of the Oggies, the kind of extremism that can lead to such madness. The thrust of the story is that Chalmers is set up for murder but the mystery is simply a means to get the story going. Rather than tell the audience how capable Chalmers is, Elmore spends much of the novella having his lead character escape custody in brilliant, albeit exceedingly painful fashion. The fights in this story are not brief nor do they skimp on the gory details. Elmore takes time to make sure the reader understands the physical toll of violence. All of the fight scenes have a crisp, punctuated style to them, moving quickly and fluidly through the paces. The fight choreography is cinematic in presentation but not description. Cinematic fights tend to involve less damage to the character. Elmore conveys the notion that Chalmers is constantly fighting to stay alive.
The novella is an easy read, written by Elmore in such a way that the reading audience can follow along. Augment Human Services is an excellent starter for a larger series, leaving plenty of mysteries to be solved in the next installment, while establishing the setting and background in excellent fashion. By the end of the novella, I could see the grimy, corrupt world Chalmers inhabits and I wanted to continue experiencing it. Get the novella and be prepared for a trip through a plausible future that explores the darkest corners of humanity.
Phil Elmore has found his voice with authority in this story and he is sharper than ever. He paints a picture of a grim future in which trans-humanism has run amok and the cyberpunk theme is presented with a raw unsettling sense of anxiety and paranoia.
I was unable to put the story down after I started. It moves at a frantic pace. Chalmers, the main character is our eyes in a world full of despotic government, trans human freaks and unseen forces manipulating it all.
There are several awesome, cringe worthy moments in the story in which I found myself tensing up as I read them. Phil manages to take us to a dystopian setting rife with tensions boiling under the surface. He paints a picture of a strange subculture that leaves us alienated, disturbed and wanting more. He drops us in a story that is frantic in it's pace, disturbing in it's palpable sense of forboding symbolism and satisfying in it's kick ass delivery of gritty action.
Can't wait for the second installment.
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