Heart Threaded - Audiobook
About this audiobook
In world where heartbeats are currency, and the debts are for life.
In the near future, it's possible to extend your life, and purchase upgrades for your body. The cost is future heartbeats. A debt you can worry about tomorrow, or pay it off as you work for the company that sold it to you. It's a small price to pay for living longer.
Juliet isn’t just anyone, her father is the powerful head of the cyber-wear and life extension company, the man ultimately in charge of the new Heart Thread technology. To help a friend Juliet seeks help from an underworld hacker. He is reluctant, and confused, but intrigued.
As they discover more about the Heart Threads it isn't only debt tracking but intertwines much deeper into the human consciousness to control those with the implants. Together they form an unlikely bond. Can two people from such different worlds be together?
Juliet is caught between her loyalty to her father, her desire for freedom and doing the right thing.
Separated by class and ideals to change the world, Juliet will have to risk everything.
A fast-paced Cyberpunk adventure set in a dystopian science fiction future.
If you love underdogs vs corporate control; this tension-filled dystopian, HEART THREADED, is inspired by Shakespeare and Cyberpunk. A gritty adventure of young rebellion against class divides and the fight for hope.
No matter how many heartbeats, you only have one death.
About the author
James L. Graetz is a writer from Australia. He's a neuroscience researcher by day and writes science fiction and fantasy by night. He fell in love with reading at a young age and progressed from Fantasy to Science Fiction novels. His ideas and stories started as scraps of paper and notebooks, to apps and computers. After being invited to submit a short story for a Cyberpunk Anthology, Neo Cyberpunk, he decided to release one of these stories.
He is accompanied by his loyal Border Collie and a one eyed rescue cat that regularly knocks off his glasses when he's reading.
He writes great quality, well edited stories, a unique perspective, and some inventive near future and fantasy worlds to explore.