Optimal Power

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Toronto the near future: a city ruined by greed. Homeless citizens fill parks by the thousands their spaces artificially heated in the winter months-their lives in the hands of a power company that has ceased all communication.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Otis Colip is one of those homeless. He had a good life once: nice house brilliant wife a prominent job maintaining a fleet of corporate androids. As tempers in the park flare and scavengers big and small begin squeezing his community he must make his stand. Driven by a deep desire to return to his old life inside the biometrically locked city he takes on a risky job-one with an all-or-nothing price tag.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Recalling such classics as Phillip K. Dick's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> as well as contemporary dystopias like Eric Barnes' </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The City Where We Once Lived</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Margaret Atwood's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Heart Goes Last</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and Adam Sternbergh's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shovel Ready</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Optimal Power</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a story in which access is everything and the keys belong to thieves hackers and CEOs.</span></p>