Afterparty
by Daryl Gregory
Buy on AmazonFollowing the suicide of a seventeen-year-old Toronto street girl who used a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, Lyda Rose, one of the original scientists who developed the drug, sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.
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"They say that all technology is truly driven by its black market applications, and this is never more true than in Afterparty, where any kid with a chemjet printer and an internet connection can print his own smart drugs and get freaky. Gregory’s near-future world is a fascinating look at a society where the brain has become the final battlefield of faith, pleasure and commerce, and he puts together a ripping story that’s essentially one long chase sequence as his characters fight to stop the distribution of a new party drug that might just mean the end of the world."
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