Firebreak

  • Author: Nicole Kornher-Stace
  • Narrator: Carlotta Brentan
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 13:40:56
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Synopsis

One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing take on Ready Player One, with a heavy dose of Black Mirror.

Ready Player One meets Cyberpunk 2077 in this eerily familiar future.

“Twenty minutes to power curfew, and my kill counter’s stalled at eight hundred eighty-seven while I’ve been standing here like an idiot. My health bar is flashing ominously, but I’m down to four heal patches, and I have to be smart.”

New Liberty City, 2134.

Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country’s remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side.

Here, Mallory streams Stellaxis’s wargame SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the game’s rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal—looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Mal’s sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife’s developer, and puts her in the kind of danger she’s only experienced through her avatar.

Author Kornher-Stace’s adult science fiction debut—Firebreak— is loaded with ambitious challenges and a city to save.

Chapters

  • 001 Firebreak Open

    Duration: 12s
  • 002 Firebreak Dedication

    Duration: 11s
  • 003 Firebreak Part1 ToySoldiers Chapter1

    Duration: 30min
  • 004 Firebreak Chapter2

    Duration: 18min
  • 005 Firebreak Chapter3

    Duration: 29min
  • 006 Firebreak Chapter4

    Duration: 40min
  • 007 Firebreak Chapter5

    Duration: 28min
  • 008 Firebreak Chapter6

    Duration: 49min
  • 009 Firebreak Chapter7

    Duration: 21min
  • 010 Firebreak Part2 CompanyMan Chapter8

    Duration: 31min
  • 011 Firebreak Chapter9

    Duration: 54min
  • 012 Firebreak Chapter10

    Duration: 55min
  • 013 Firebreak Chapter11

    Duration: 50min
  • 014 Firebreak Part3 HeartsandMinds Chapter12

    Duration: 34min
  • 015 Firebreak Chapter13

    Duration: 29min
  • 016 Firebreak Chapter14

    Duration: 40min
  • 017 Firebreak Chapter15

    Duration: 39min
  • 018 Firebreak Chapter16

    Duration: 41min
  • 019 Firebreak Part4 NPC Chapter17

    Duration: 01h06min
  • 020 Firebreak Chapter18

    Duration: 57min
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