{"product_id":"9780765382917","title":"Company Town","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCompany Town\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Madeline Ashby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2017 Winner of the Sunburst Award Society's Copper Cylinder Adult Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2017 Canada Reads Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2017 Locus Award Finalist for Science Fiction Novel Category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2017 Sunburst Award Finalist for Adult Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2017 Aurora Awards Finalist for Best Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadeline Ashby's \u003ci\u003eCompany Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Elegant, cruel, and brutally perfect, \u003ci\u003eCompany Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a prize of a novel.\" —Mira Grant, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestselling and Hugo-Award nominated author of the Newsflesh series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig—making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be—but now, the danger is personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A thrilling near-future noir mystery....A fascinating book from a writer with great vision.\" \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eCharlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Smart, weird dystopia.” —Margaret Atwood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The skill with which Ashby introduces her various SF elements is worthy of the best Heinlein.... Company Town never falters in its pacing. It's a terrific ride.\" —\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This is brave, bold, crazy storytelling at the edge and doesn't read like anything else I've seen up or down the pike.\" —Chuck Wendig, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of Aftermath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"A brilliant and chilling look at our post-oil future. I haven't been this hooked by an SF novel for ages.\" —Charles Stross, author of the Laundry Files series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Loved \u003ci\u003eCompany Town\u003c\/i\u003e, Madeline Ashby’s wonderfully imaginative new sci-fi mystery with a fascinating female protagonist.\" —\u003ci\u003eFeminist Frequency\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The world is an updated version of Raymond Chandler's, with gray morals and broken characters, and Hwa's internal monologue has just the right balance of introspection and wit...[a] very solid page-turner.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"A fascinating mix of detective noir and near-future SF with cinematic world building and a broken, but resilient, unquestionably badass heroine.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eAshby's action scenes come thick and fast...the ideas, setting and relationships that make the story really worth reading.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew Zealand Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShort-listed Locus Awards - Nominee (2017)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780765382917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40597416673486,"sku":"9780765382917","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780765382917","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}