Hi,
lovelies! It gives me great pleasure
today to host Mayet Ligad Yuhico and her new book, “Homo Roboticus”! For other stops on her Goddess Fish
Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in
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luck in this fabulous giveaway!
Homo Roboticus
by Mayet
Ligad Yuhico
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GENRE: Speculative Fiction (Sci-Fi Thriller)
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BLURB:
US
Colony Agent Brice O' Rourke is traumatised as a child when half the world
disappears as waters rose because of climate change and when North Korea
unleashed sentient human like droid soldiers to conquer lands for their hungry
people.
When
the US Congress passed laws allowing the Homo Roboticus Sollus and Aequilavum
programs, Brice gains Ira, a sister, and meets a fellow droid agent Lee Jae
Sung who saves her life during a mission.
As a
new President wins on an anti-robotist, authoritarian stance vowing a pre-machine
existence, will Brice defy her own government and risk her life to save loved
ones from extinction?
“Homo
Roboticus is a richly-imagined cautionary tale of a future earth in which
long-feared climate disaster has actually happened, the world’s population is
permanently at war, and robots have become almost more human than their
creators.” -- Susan Krawitz, author of Viva, Rose!, a Sydney Taylor Honor
winner, National Jewish Book Award debut fiction finalist, and Spur Award
finalist
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EXCERPT TWO:
Brice
entered the glass portal. Whoosh! She closed her eyes as a machine sucked her
thin suit and headgear from her body. And then the safety lights flashed, and
she entered the safe house.
Its
coolness was a welcome respite from the heat outside. Naked, she sat on a
pod-shaped chair, closed her eyes, and waited for the rest of the ritual. A
squadron of tiny cleaning machines whirred around her, thin brushes entering
the crevices of her face and body, scrubbing them clean of toxic ash. When they
flew away, spray jets descended from the ceiling and water cascaded down,
washing away any debris. When the safety lights flashed again, she stood and
stepped forward into drying gusts of air. With the flash of a single green
light, she was cleared to leave the portal.
Her
dark blue suit was hanging inside a cabinet by the door. As she dressed, she
tried not to think how much she loathed this stiff, ugly, utilitarian garment.
Instead, she turned her focus to the notes she would write about the Agni
landscape. “Day 15. Han Machina survivor #2817 interview notes in Annex V.
Still no daylight due to smog, pollutants enter the crevices of the body’s
orifices, need for a mask 24/7. UNINHABITABLE.”
As
always, a thin whirring Bee, her mechanical electronic monitor, had stood by
during the cleaning ritual and was now hovering at its usual arm’s-length
distance from her head. That soft, buzzing noise was her constant companion.
There was nothing she could do that wouldn’t be observed by the Colony. She
turned away from the Bee, as if to block out its presence.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Mayet Ligad Yuhico is
the author of FOURTEEN DAYS, a work of romantic contemporary fiction published
in 2011.
Based
in Singapore since 2012, Mayet has shifted to the genre of speculative fiction in
her new novel, HOMO ROBOTICUS, to ponder on the consequences of global warming
and climate change.
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a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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Mayet ~ Good morning! Welcome to FAB! It is so great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteGood morning Ally! Thank you for hosting at your fabulousandbrunette blog. Your website is fantastic. I love the design and colors.
ReplyDeleteThank you for organizing a marvelous blog tour, Marianne! @GoddessFish
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds awesome, thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good book.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the excerpt! It sounds like a fascinating book!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the release!
ReplyDelete--Trix
Good luck on your tour and your book.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, does this ever sound good!
ReplyDeleteI would love to read your book.
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