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Gamechanger by LX Beckett

March 4th, 2020

In my last newsletter, I recommended LX Beckett’s novel Gamechanger, with the caveat that the publisher had chosen to price the ebook at $14.99.

Well, right now, the ebook edition of Gamechanger is on sale for just $2.99. Here’s an affiliate link to Amazon that will earn me a few pennies of you click it and then buy. The ebook is probably also on sale at Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, etc., if those are your preferred vendors.

About the book:
Gamechanger is a complex romp of a novel that includes some of the most impressive near-ish future world-building I’ve seen. The story takes place in the “bounceback” era, a period of future history that follows the “setback” (basically the present day, as climate change leads to catastrophic environmental collapse), and the “clawback” era, when a new global system begins to stave off immediate extinction. The bounceback generation is dealing with things, and the world is much improved for their efforts. But then things happen…

I listened to Gamechanger as an audiobook, but while the narrator does an excellent job, there is just so much terminology and (I suspect) quirky typography, that I wish I’d read it instead.

I have no idea how long the sale will last. If you’re interested, you should check it out now.

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Posted on: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 at 11:21 am
Categories: Audio Books, Recommended Reading.
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2 Responses to “Gamechanger by LX Beckett”

  1. SteveG Says:

    You got me with the comparison to Neuromancer 🙂

    However, I’m skeptical of a book described as a “romp.”

  2. Linda Says:

    Comparison to Neuromancer??

    You’ll find the word “romp” even more odd when you read the first chapter, which is set much earlier in history than the rest of the book, during very dark days indeed. The world gets much shinier after that.