Repo Virtual

Corey J. White''s debut novel Repo Virtual blurs the lines between the real and virtual in an action-packed cyberpunk heist story.An Amazon and Kobo Best Book of April and winner of the Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel!The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities ― augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players while on the streets below people are forced to beg steal and hustle to survive. Enter Julius Dax online repoman and real-life thief. He''s been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he''s stolen the first sentient AI his payday gets a lot more complicated.