I have always been fascinated by the Christmas Carols by Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and JRR Tolkien, among others. Stories that, read today, take us back to times, sometimes difficult, in remote settings and with real, fantastic and imaginary characters.
Saving the distances, in "Alice Harper and the android rebellion", I wanted to tell a futuristic story in which the characters, some human and others not, travel through real settings and others not so much. Some events that take place in Manhattan on the dates close to Christmas, in the middle of this 21st century. It is, despite everything, a novel, for any age because the imagination is free and has no limits.
SYNOPSIS
Manhattan, December 12, 2054. Three pairs of thirteen-year-old boys, representing Europe, Asia and America, come to New York to participate in the United Nations Confederation Grand Final, a successful global contest based on the resolution of riddles about the history of mankind...
Until they reached the Big Apple, they had had to overcome successive confrontations at the national and continental level. They were, therefore, the winners among millions of high school boys worldwide. In those preliminary qualifying tests, the powerful search engines in the cloud had been his allies, but in the Grand Final, everything was going to be very different, also much more dangerous and less predictable.
We find ourselves in a context in which physical books have ceased to exist and technology occupies everything, something that ends up taking on great prominence, since young people will have to decipher enigmas by searching texts written on paper, accessing the basement of the iconic Fifth Avenue Public Library, or in Libercity, an immense library hidden in virtual reality that can only be reached through disturbing time travel...
As if that were not enough, while New York awaits the arrival of Christmas, the youngsters will also find themselves involved in a criminal act carried out by three discontinued androids that neither the Police nor the FBI manage to locate and arrest...
Welcome to Alice Harper and the Android Rebellion, the reimagining of classic sci-fi, the future used as a hyper-stimulating setting, the ultimate timeless adventure, and accessible technological horror like you've never read before.