Orange
City
by
Lee Matthew Goldberg
Genre:
Science Fiction
Imagine
a secret, hidden City that gives a second chance at life for those
selected to come: felons, deformed outcasts, those on the fringe of
the Outside World. Everyone gets a job, a place to live; but you are
bound to the City forever. You can never leave.
Its
citizens are ruled by a monstrous figure called the "Man"
who resembles a giant demented spider from the lifelike robotic limbs
attached to his body. Everyone follows the Man blindly, working hard
to make their Promised Land stronger, too scared to defy him and be
discarded to the Empty Zones.
After
ten years as an advertising executive, Graham Weatherend receives an
order to test a new client, Pow! Sodas. After one sip of the orange
flavor, he becomes addicted, the sodas causing wild mood swings that
finally wake him up to the prison he calls reality.
A
dynamic mash-up of 1984 meets LOST, Orange City is a lurid, dystopian
first book in a series that will continue with the explosive sequel
Lemonworld.
Lee
Matthew Goldberg is the author of THE ANCESTOR, THE DESIRE CARD, SLOW
DOWN and THE MENTOR from St. Martin's Press. He has been published in
multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. ORANGE
CITY, his first sci-fi novel, is forthcoming in 2021 along with his
YA series RUNAWAY TRAIN. His pilots and screenplays have been
finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay,
the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay
contests. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his
writing has also appeared in the anthology DIRTY BOULEVARD, The
Millions, Vol 1. Brooklyn, LitReactor, Necessary Fiction, Fiction
Writer's Review, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, Essays &
Fictions, The New Plains Review, and others. He is the co-curator of
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series (guerrillalit.wordpress.com). He
lives in New York City.
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This sounds scary! The Man sounds terrifying!
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