The body scout : a novel /
Michel, Lincoln,
The body scout : a novel / Lincoln Michel. - First edition. - 356 pages ; 22 cm
"Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his childhood best friend--Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz--is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into the dark corners and glittering cloud condos of a world ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics, and where genetic editing and advanced drugs mean you can have any body you want--as long as you can afford it. But even among the philosophical Neanderthals, zootech weapons, and genetically modified CEOs, there's a curveball he never could have called"--
9780316628723 0316628727
2021003803
Baseball scouts--Fiction.
Cyborgs--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Genetic engineering--Fiction.
Science fiction.
The body scout : a novel / Lincoln Michel. - First edition. - 356 pages ; 22 cm
"Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his childhood best friend--Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz--is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into the dark corners and glittering cloud condos of a world ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics, and where genetic editing and advanced drugs mean you can have any body you want--as long as you can afford it. But even among the philosophical Neanderthals, zootech weapons, and genetically modified CEOs, there's a curveball he never could have called"--
9780316628723 0316628727
2021003803
Baseball scouts--Fiction.
Cyborgs--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Genetic engineering--Fiction.
Science fiction.