Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day. They pay for the beer they don’t steal with the money from Zodiac Code, a DNA astrology site, and by producing bio-bespoke augments for criminals, punks, and ecowarriors. They have to deal with disgruntled clients, scene kids who don’t dig their band, and navigating a city owned wholly by the violence of corporate interest and criminality. Their world is split into three factions: Green – still trying to save the world; Blue – trying to profit while they can; and Black – who see no hope left. When a group of extremist Green activists hire the pair for a series of jobs ranging from robbery to murder, Charlie knows they should walk away. But Parker wants to make a difference, and Charlie sees an opportunity to feel something other than Black. Facing faceless corporations, amoral biohackers, and criminal cyberpunks in an escalating biological arms race, Charlie will have to choose what she believes in. Is there still hope – and does she have a right to grab it?

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Ian Green
Ian Green is a fantasy writer born in Aberdeen, Scotland, currently based out of Algiers. He is the author of an upcoming epic fantasy trilogy to be published by the Ad Astra imprint of Head Of Zeus beginning summer 2021 with The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath. Ian has a PhD in clinical epigenetics, and his short fiction has been widely broadcast and performed including winning the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition and winning the Futurebook Future Fiction prize.