First off, I want to thank each and every blogger who graciously
agreed to join the tour. And a special thank you to Hannah Richardson for
helping me organize this tour—she has been tremendous.
Now, about the tour itself: Beginning today, and running
through July 3rd, the Kingdom blog tour will feature reviews, interviews, guest
posts, giveaways, and a few other surprises—including an international
contest to win a Kindle Fire.
The blog tour is being conduced to promote Kingdom, a
dystopian, biopunk-thriller, and the first part of the Tiber City Trilogy.
Most people are familiar with the term “cyberpunk,” but
“biopunk” is harder to nail down. In many ways, biopunk is similar to the
cyberpunk genre, and shares many of the same themes and archetypes: the
dystopian future; the overreliance on technology; mega-corporations; a constant
and overwhelming flow of data; the anti-hero—these elements are integral parts
of both genres. And both genres are fueled, to some extent, by the sense of
rebellion and desire for individual freedom expressed by the original punk rock
revolution. But the main difference—the most important difference—is that while
cyberpunk focuses on invasive technological modification of the human body,
biopunk explores the dehumanizing consequences of biological modification, of
re-arranging our DNA in the pursuit of perfection.
Here’s a brief introduction to Kingdom:
In
a secret laboratory hidden under the desert, a covert bioengineering project—codename “Exodus”—has discovered
the gene responsible for the human
soul.
Somewhere
in the neon sprawl outside the nation’s collapsing economic core, a group of renegade monks are on the
verge of uncovering a secret that has eluded
mankind for centuries.
In
a glittering tower high above the urban decay, an ascendant U.S. Senator is found dead—an apparent, yet
inexplicable, suicide.
And
in the streets below, a young man races through an ultra modern metropolis on the verge of a violent
revolution...closing in on the terrible truth
behind Exodus—and one man’s dark vision for the future of mankind.
Welcome
to Tiber City.
If you’re intrigued, you can grab a copy of Kingdom (paperback or Kindle format) over at Amazon. Or, if you’re still on the fence,
check out the first four chapters at my website, Tiber City Noir.
And, if you’re interested in entering the Tiber City Kindle
Fire Giveaway, you can enter the contest through the widget on the sites
hosting this tour.
Thanks again for checking out the Kingdom blog tour.
Cheers,
Anderson
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