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The Chimera Code Paperback – 12 Nov. 2020

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"Fun, fresh cyberpunk!" - Publisher's Weekly

Everything's for hire - even magic.

If you need something done, Cloke's one of the best; a mercenary with some unusual talents and an attitude to match. But when she's hired by a virtual construct to destroy the other copies of himself, and the down payment is a new magical skill, she knows this job is going to be a league harder than anything she's ever done.

An action-packed techno-thriller with a side of magical realism from a bold new voice in genre fiction.

"A full-throttle, magical cyberpunk superhero thriller!" - Peter McLean

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500 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Solaris
Publication date

12 Nov. 2020
Dimensions

12.8 x 2.54 x 19.8 cm
ISBN-10

1781087970
ISBN-13

978-1781087978
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Publisher : Solaris (12 Nov. 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 500 pages
ISBN-10 : 1781087970
ISBN-13 : 978-1781087978
Dimensions : 12.8 x 2.54 x 19.8 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 982,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Fun, fresh cyberpunk!" ― Publisher's Weekly

"A full-throttle, magical cyberpunk superhero thriller!" -- Peter McLean

About the Author

Over the years, Wayne Santos has written copy for advertising agencies, scripts for television, and articles for magazines. He's lived in Canada, Thailand and Singapore, traveling to many countries around South East Asia. His first love has always been science fiction and fantasy, and while he regularly engaged with it in novels, comics, anime and video games, it wasn t until 1996, with his first short story in the Canadian speculative fiction magazine On Spec that he aimed towards becoming a novelist. He now lives in Canada, in Hamilton, ON with his wife. When he's not writing, he is likely to be found reading, playing video games, watching anime, or trying to calm his cat down.

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Surprisingly enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2021

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This is an energetic book full of ideas. Novel but recognisable characters in a futuristic action thriller. I enjoyed it.

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Chantal Lyons

Diverting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2020

There's a lot to commend about this book, but it's also lacking in quite a few ways, for me.

It's billed as a new Neuromancer, and that's very apt - in fact, it actually reads like a fanfiction of Neuromancer. As a reader, it seems that you're expected to have already read Neuromancer, because there is zero explaining of the world. I hate an info-dump at the beginning as much as anyone, but 'The Chimera Code' really goes to town with leaving the reader in the dark. This also extended to characters - Cloke is pretty boring. Not coloured in at all. Zee is far more interesting, although I did find them problematic in that the only non-binary character in the book was genetically manufactured that way. It's a little progress, but could have gone further (and I'm always uncomfortable with rape being used as a backstory).

There's a ton of imagination in this book - magic and technology!!! But it took so long to find out anything about how those two things mesh together. I was able to keep reading to the end, and the climax battle features a super-cool magic storm/weather system (and space station - this being a tribute to Neuromancer after all), but I wanted more. Stronger characterisation. Better world-building (and what happened to climate change?) and better world-explaining. Add those in, and this could be a really great story.

Additional notes for the publisher - 1) There is an error in Marcus's dialogue (early on; I can't recall which page) where he says he's saving for his daughter's college fund; however, British people say "university" not college. 2) It is surprising that Cloke would express difficulty (when first meeting Zee) with handling non-binary pronouns. This is 100 years in the future - surely the average person will be used to interacting with non-binary people on a daily basis.

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Innermost Eye

A punchy, compelling cyber-thriller that deftly weaves magic and technology together.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2020

The Chimera Code starts off at full-speed, and Santos has a definite gift for writing action scenes, but the book's actually at its most compelling when it slows down - the world-building here is meticulous and convincing, and the character development of Zee, one of the two protagonists, is sympathetic and well-drawn.

A detailed, exciting read.

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