Jay Klements

Safe State (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It's 2058. Six years ago, the Winter of Disconnect shattered Britain and stole Jas McDonnell's childhood. She survived. Millions didn't.

Now Jas manages survivor's guilt with electromagnetic emotional correction, artificially induced reality, and good old chemical escape. She scrapes a living under the unblinking lenses of the storybirds, hoping to trigger their interest algorithms and stream a few moments of her life to poverty-voyeurs in the transhumanist playground of Grand London.

But when a truckload of illegal bio-fabricators arrives in her backwater town, life turns upside-down for Jas. The posthuman demigods in the capital are definitely watching now. And her real-time soap opera is about to become a horror movie.

Safe State is grimy post-cyberpunk for readers who love the deep immersion of William Gibson's The Peripheral, the bleakly real tech extrapolations of Daniel Suarez's Change Agent, and the dark British cynicism of Charles Stross's classic Accelerando. In an age where we fear what our machines and AI will become, Safe State asks: shouldn't we be more afraid of what we'll become ourselves?

Praise for Jay Klements:

"I haven't been this blown away by an author's achievement since House of Leaves. I'm on my second read, revelling in the prose, characters, and world. Buy this book. It's one of the best you'll read." ★★★★★ (Amazon Review of Safe State)

"It's a rare occasion when you pick up a new author and know within the first few pages that you'll want to read everything they publish. Segmentation Fault was that kind of story for me." ★★★★★ (Amazon Review of Segmentation Fault)

"Safe State's world is an absolutely standout creation, full of fascinating ideas-the Storybirds, the Hoffman-Schwarz syndrome, those emotion inductors-and such clever extrapolations of current tech that, reading it, this future seems not only possible but somehow likely." ★★★★★ (Amazon Review of Safe State)

"This is gripping, fresh cyberpunk with relatable, clearly defined characters, each with their own arc, and an ending that will make your head spin." ★★★★★ (Amazon Review of Safe State)

"I adored this story. I'm a sucker for a near-future dystopia and Segmentation Fault's world is one for the ages - fascinating, terrifying, and all so grimly plausible." ★★★★★ (Amazon Review of Segmentation Fault)

"This book nails the quintessential "high tech, low life" grit of cyberpunk, but blends in a deeply relatable, sympathetic character I really came to care for." ★★★★★ (Amazon Review of Safe State)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jay Klements
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231848980
• Artikelnr.: 75675734

Autorenporträt

Jay hates biographies and would just put 'neurodivergent deviant demiboy' here if he had his way. When he's not doing his nails, forming emotional bonds with inanimate objects, or listening to shitty techno and pretending he's still twenty, he's guiding disadvantaged teens through an education system designed to perpetuate inequality and crush those who dare to dream different.

He lives in Suffolk with his long-suffering wife, and works somewhere in a dark corner of Essex. Jay Klements is a nom de plume because the real Jay thinks having a pen name makes him mysterious and interesting. Mind you, he also believes wearing a rollneck jumper makes him edgy and subversive, so his judgement can hardly be trusted. Either way, 'Jay' is a much nicer non-binary name than the one on his birth certificate.

Jay writes for catharsis, and is now on a mission to reanimate cyberpunk's neon-lit corpse with an injection of British dystopian grime. His first novel was a contemporary thriller, No Good Deed, which was published in 2019. Five years on he's reinvented himself as a pound-shop William Gibson, but new works remain slow to appear. That's not surprising. He's been called many things beginning with p, but prolific isn't one of them...