02188cam a2200385 i 4500 538128133 TxAuBib 20211119120000.0 210423s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2021010173 9781982142742 HRD 26.99 198214274X HRD 26.99 TxAuBib rda Kornher-Stace, Nicole,. Firebreak / Nicole Kornher-Stace. Fire break. First Saga Press hardcover edition. New York : Saga Press, [2021] ©2021. 406 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side. Here, Mallory streams Stellaxis's wargame SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the game's rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal--looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Mal's sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife's developer, and puts her in the kind of danger she's only experienced through her avatar."-- Publisher's description. 20211128. jz. Women video gamers Fiction. Video gamers Fiction. Corporations Corrupt practices Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Avatars (Virtual reality) Fiction. Future, the Fiction. Dystopian fiction. Science fiction.