For those of you who are following this gentleman with me I know you will be excite to see this, his next published novel. Amazon has it for $10, but you could pay more for it at your local retailer if you want.
Mack Megaton drives a cab in the mutant-infested technotopia of Empire City. It's a step down for a massive killing machine created for world domination, but kindhearted unapologeticMegaton has bucked his programming, and when his secretive neighbors, the Bleakers, go missing, he begins a search. Young Holt Bleaker has something in his mutant blood that makes him valuable to aliens poised to invade Empire City, and only a giant robot—a robot like Mack Megaton—can break him out of the fortress where he's held prisoner. Soon plans go awry when sinister psychic Grey subverts Megaton's programming, but he finds an unlikely ally in Lucia Napier, an outrageously beautiful and talented media star and roboticist. Eccentric characters, all of whom are clever twists on stereotypes, populate a smart, rocket-fast read with a clever, twisty plot that comes to a satisfying conclusion.
That's the synopsis and I can tell you, it's already better than it sounds. Martinez delivers on his classic wit and humor, this one is technical in nature, hence robots, and he is brilliant in the way he pulls of android humor. The writing is more tight than Gil's All Fright but there is still the silliness and ingenuity that makes Martinez stand apart. Some of the elements he has created for this novel are really clever and the ones he borrows he does so with unapologetic cliches. It contains some expertly wrought tributes/assemblages of several genres; detective, sci-fi, noir.
Enjoy.
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