The Rage Room
- Publisher
- Inanna Publications
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2020
- Subjects
- High Tech, Contemporary Women
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771337786
- Publish Date
- Oct 2020
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
p>What if you had a chance to fix the worst mistake of your life…but only made things worse? The Rage Room dives into dystopia with an extraordinary tale about choices and second chances. Set in 2055, our plastic world is run by robots, fueled by consumerism, twisted religion, and virtual data. Satellites control the weather, food is grown in laboratories. Arts and culture are distant memories. Beneath the sunny skies and behind the garbage-free suburban McMansions live deeply disturbed, materialistic families. Prescribed visits to rage rooms lance anger, boredom, and discontent but the Band-Aid fix hides disturbing governmental motives. A provocative exploration of subliminal societal messages,The Rage Room is an action-packed story of unravelling and alternate realities, of disturbing and searching re-runs. Can an army of feminist hackers restore Mother Nature? Can love triumph over fear? And, ultimately, can the children be saved? Sharps Barkley jumps back in time and finds that changing the future isn’t as easy as he thought.
About the author
Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits has lived in Canada since 2000. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy and has lived in the U.S.A., Australia and Britain. No Fury Like That, her most recently published work, is her seventh novel. It will be published in Italian, under the title Una furia dell'altro mondo, in 2019. Previous works include: The Hungry Mirror (winner 2011 IPPY Gold Medal); West of Wawa (winner 2012 IPPY Silver Medal); A Glittering Chaos (winner 2016 Bronze IPPY Medal ; The Witchdoctor's Bones; Between the Cracks She Fell (winner 2016 for Contemporary Fiction); and The Nearly Girl. Lisa lives and writes in Toronto. Her ninth novel, The Occult Persuasion and the Anarchist's Solution is forthcoming in 2019.