Publisher's Synopsis
Brian Dominick offers up a dazzling anti-dystopia - with razor sharp prose and playful yet convincing near-future world-making, he guides us through the movement of a future's possible history. A vision of messy, revolutionary change, a story of disruptive technocapital and budding insurgency, brought alive in realistic and deeply human detail. Present as Prologue is the best kind of speculative fiction: the sort that invites us to think outside the constraints of our current moment, while recognizing that old ways inevitably will haunt the new. I'm dying to read what happens next! - Natasha Lennerdauthor Being NumerousYears before ZeroBloc and the Reboot change everything, Grover Parsons and millions of other sudden activists help Apricity Carter eliminate the weapons they call "rampage rifles." It is the dawn of the Youth Age, when distributive technologies enable history's least powerful class to become its strongest force, nearly overnight. It starts with gun owners mining cryptocurrency by destroying their favorite weapons. Soon, tech-enhanced mobs swarm firearms manufacturers in the largest direct-action campaign of the century... so far.This standalone Prologue to an upcoming novel about revolution in the 2020s portrays the Summer of Sparks and the dawn of the Youth Age. Old America will never be the same.
