Showing results for "Touch" in Dystopian

Gracie Jones was little more than a child when Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them, and they became known as the Freedom Five. At 17, she made a decision that turned the tide in the war between Earth and the Alluthans, but in exchange, she gave up all that she knew.

In 2045, friction has been engineered out of existence. But for two exiles on opposite sides of a broken world, the noise is just beginning. San Francisco is a paradise of perfect efficiency. AI "Mirrors" handle difficult conversations, and "Auto-gigs" project soulless concerts into empty clubs. Samir Patel is drifting. His marriage didn’t end with a fight, but with a quiet negotiation between algorithms. Now an exile in his own life, he tends bar at Maelzel’s Exhibition—one of the last holdouts for human-made music in a partitioned California.

Katia Simon spent her entire childhood repressing her desire to feel the embrace of her parents and her entire adult life hiding her lust for even a single kiss from her husband for fear of being rejected by her community and exiled to the Outside. The physical touch laws imposed on this society deprive humanity of the comfort of a warm hug or the calming squeeze of a hand, but Kat refuses to accept that fate.

Lie. Steal. Swindle. Seduce. Kill. These are the things Gun Anderson does best. He does it all at the command of his father. Gun is nothing more than a well-trained attack dog. He despises the wreckage his work leaves behind. Everything changes when he is ordered to befriend Sulan Hom and infiltrate Global Arms. He approaches the mission with detached coldness. But he soon discovers a budding friendship with Sulan. The more time he spends with her, the more he cares for her. If Gun follows orders, he will betray Sulan and lose her.