Company Town
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Company Town is a 2016 science fiction novel by the Canadian writer and futurist Madeline Ashby, published by Tor Books, set on a vast oil rig city off the coast of Newfoundland. Hwa, a young bodyguard who is one of the last unaugmented humans in a city of genetically and technologically enhanced people, is hired by the powerful Lynch family, which has just bought the rig, to protect their teenage heir, and finds herself investigating a string of murders linked to a mysterious future-shaping plan.
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- Margaret Atwood: “These are some of the books I have read and enjoyed. … A tough female central character who’s a misfit because she’s not genetically enhanced … This author doubles as a “futurist,” so pay attention.”