Val Roberts
ASIN: B00MWCXODO
Publisher: Wylde Hare Press (August 19, 2014)
Pages: 112
Travertine Garcia is out of funds, out of options, and her air tax is due in the morning; the prospect of being tossed into the lunar wilderness sends people looking for miracles, like Club Bebop’s legendary open microphone, netcast by its equally legendary owner, Joseph Bannister. Bebop owner Joe “Glitch” Bannister is sleepwalking through his second life, tweaking the gang that wants payola and hacking for the Strike Force that put him back together after blowing him apart. Until Travertine decimates the Open Mike, flatlines on his stage, and wakes him up. She’s everything he didn’t know he needed, a deep-dive performer with an ancient-tech interface who can’t carry a tune outside the net, a stray human that needs a family as much as he needs to make a family. When the Blue Dragon gang kidnaps her while he’s off chasing down a rumor about the Ganymede conflict that got him temporarily ...