Queen City Jazz
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHong>ORong>: Goonan, Kathleen Ann, PUBLISHER: ong>Orong>b Books, In Verity's wong>orong>ld, nanotech plagues decimated ong>theong> population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Growing up on an isolated farm, she finds her happy life changing course when Blaze, ong>theong> only young man in ong>theong> community and Verity's best friend, is shot. With Blaze's body wrapped in a nanotech cocoon, Verity sets off on a quest to ong>theong> Enlivened City of Cincinnati. It is a place of legend, where huge bio-engineered bees carry infong>orong>mation through ong>theong> streets and enong>orong>mous nanotech ong>ong>flowersong>ong> burst ong>fromong> ong>theong> tops of strange buildings. It is ong>theong> place where Blaze might be brought back ong>fromong> ong>theong> brink of death. But Cincinnati is a city of dreams turned into nightmares, endlessly reliving ong>theong> fantasies of its creatong>orong>, a city that Verity must rule--ong>orong> die.