I’m here to participate in the live study of an electromagnetically-induced earthquake. This one registered at a whopping 13.2 points on the Tesla Scale. That’s never happened before. An E-’Quake is the perfect super-weapon. Who would ever suspect it? It’s both invisible and untraceable. Oh, nature has been manipulated for reasons of state before. Take the ‘Great Gobi Sandstorm’ of 2032, for example. Hundreds of thousands of rebel Muslims were buried alive in China’s Far West Xinjiang Province. That was a beta-test for a certain type of military operation. But that event occurred almost thirty years ago when the science was still primitive. It was messy. Too messy. How do you explain all that real-time sand turning into mud? The Manga Man – the new novel by Alexander Besher (born in China in 1951), author of the RIM trilogy (nominated for the 1994 Philip K. Dick Award; illustrated by German artist Christian Dörge.
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I’m here to participate in the live study of an electromagnetically-induced earthquake. This one registered at a whopping 13.2 points on the Tesla Scale. That’s never happened before. An E-’Quake is the perfect super-weapon. Who would ever suspect it? It’s both invisible and untraceable. Oh, nature has been manipulated for reasons of state before. Take the ‘Great Gobi Sandstorm’ of 2032, for example. Hundreds of thousands of rebel Muslims were buried alive in China’s Far West Xinjiang Province. That was a beta-test for a certain type of military operation. But that event occurred almost thirty years ago when the science was still primitive. It was messy. Too messy. How do you explain all that real-time sand turning into mud? The Manga Man – the new novel by Alexander Besher (born in China in 1951), author of the RIM trilogy (nominated for the 1994 Philip K. Dick Award; illustrated by German artist Christian Dörge.
With this dazzling new series of futuristic thrillers, Besher introduces Johnny Hara, the paranormal Japanese-American Butoh detective, and his side-kick 'Spectral Yoko' (aka Spy), a female Butoh dancer showgirl. Together, they face the challenges of a 21st century-world run amok, in Besher's eerie and gripping 'Hanging Butoh' mysteries ... It is the year 2042, and the world no longer resembles the planet we knew four decades earlier. Gambling has been legalized, but people are no longer lured by money but by spiritual revitalization. For the city of American Shambhala is built on the site of a natural energy vortex, radiating live-giving energy which cures all illnesses. But this life-giving power must be won by gambling at the city's casinos, and the odds are not always fair. Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
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