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In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected “Eternals” into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that “revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters” (Library Journal), Zakariah Davis and his wife Mia successfully procured an activated sample of the virus for their only son, Rix, but Zakariah sacrificed his memories in the process, and he and his father Phillip were brain-burned trying to hack the A.I. Beast who controls V-space. In book two, Mia is murdered in retribution and the family is overcome by grief. Zak goes on a quest to contact her spirit in the afterlife while Rix wants revenge at any cost. Niko, the teenage clone of Zak’s dead sister, has received the Eternal virus and been captured by “vampires” who drain her blood nightly for its rejuvenating effects. After Rix helps her to escape, she finds sanctuary at the bedside of her comatose progenitor, Phillip Davis, whose brain is being reconstructed in a clandestine neuroscience laboratory. Zak enlists the help of a famed lecturer on psychic research, Jackie Rose, and together they travel to the home of a Haitian shaman, Tono, a prophetic spiritual healer. Rix and Niko team up to find Mia’s murderer and finally confront her killer in the lair of the Beast.

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Stanton wastes no words in his approach to language, creating a deceptively simple style that is both appealing and lucid. -- Library Journal (October 15, 2011)

ECW's first sf title revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters. Verdict: Stylistically streamlined, this vibrant series opener should appeal to fans of Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. -- Library Journal on The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation

""Finding innovative science fiction is getting harder and harder ...Then comes along a series of books from ECW Press called The Bloodlight Chronicles by Steve Stanton and hope for originality in the genre is revived."" -- Amazing Stories ""This elegantly written SF series features believable characters and powerful situations. Stanton wastes no words in his approach to language, creating a deceptively simple style that is both appealing and lucid."" -- Library Journal

This book is the first of a planned trio; I can't wait until the other two come out. If you are at all a fan of hi-tech sci fi or cyberpunk you will definitely enjoy this book. -- 410Media.com on The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation Themes of transcendence and family love play out against backdrops of real and virtual worlds in Stanton's slight neo-cyberpunk debut, the first speculative fiction title from Canadian indie ECW . . . Fans of James Gunn's The Immortals (1962) will find many familiar elements . . . -- Publisher's Weekly on The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation On the road much travelled of neo-cyberpunk, The Bloodlight Chronicles manages to tell a suspenseful and lean story not about glazing-eyes tech gone crazy but about gifted, yet human-sized characters we care about, with some welcome twists on beloved already classics - avatars roaming cyberspace, which is described quite fetchingly here, for instance, or immortality through downloading into the Machine, which is not all that it's cracked up to be, thankfully. There is also an intriguing extra-terrestrial, or should I say extra-universal element which bodes well for the following books of what will be a series. I for one will be waiting for them. --Elisabeth Vonarburg, award-winning sci-fi author on The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation This tale should appeal to science fiction readers, especially those who enjoy the virtual worlds and considering where computers and the internet may eventually lead us. Well-written, this volume resolves enough of its plot issues to satisfy, while leaving the door wide open to continue the adventure. Recommended. --Ronald Hore, reviewer, Canadian Review of Materials on The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation The characters are unique and extremely well rounded. -- Night Owl Sci Fi on The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation ECW's first sf title revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters. Verdict: Stylistically streamlined, this vibrant series opener should appeal to fans of Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. -- Library Journal on The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation Stanton wastes no words in his approach to language, creating a deceptively simple style that is both appealing and lucid. -- Library Journal (October 15, 2011)

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Steve Stanton is the author of The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation. He is the vice president of SF Canada, the nation's bilingual organization of science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers. His short fiction has been published in 12 countries, including translations into Hebrew, Greek, Italian, and Romanian. He lives in Washago, Ontario.

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