The
Rage Room
by
Lisa de Nikolits
Genre:
Speculative Fiction
What
if you had a chance to fix the worst mistake of your life…but only
made things worse? The Rage Room dives into dystopia with an
extraordinary tale about choices and second chances. Sharps
Barkley jumps back in time and finds that changing the future
isn’t as easy as he thought.
Set
in 2055, our plastic world is run by robots, fueled by
consumerism, twisted religion and virtual data. Satellites
control the weather, food is grown in laboratories. Arts and
culture are distant memories. Beneath the sunny skies and behind the
garbage-free suburban McMansions live deeply disturbed,
materialistic families. Prescribed visits to rage rooms lance
desperate anger, boredom and discontent but the band-aid fix
hides disturbing governmental motives.
An
intense and provocative exploration of societal coded messages, The
Rage Room is an action-packed story of unravelling and alternate
realities, of disturbing and searching re-runs. Can the army of
feminist hackers restore Mother Nature?
Can love triumph over
fear? And, ultimately, can the children be saved?
Dark,
fun, weird, imaginative, The Rage Room is a dystopic
ride perfect for the anxieties and conditions of the present day. The
paranoia of Sharps Barkley seeps into you, propelling this thriller
that will keep you guessing to the very end.
– David
Albertyn, author of Undercard.
Leave
it to the wild imagination of Lisa de Nikolits to bring us the
dystopian future of The Rage Room, an
extraordinarily inventive speculative fiction thriller with a
decidedly feminist bent. Fast-paced, funny, bold, and completely
engrossing, The Rage Room is an allegory, a
cautionary tale, and a rollicking good read that will stay with you
long after the last page has been turned.
– Amy Jones, author
of We’re All in This Together and Every
Little Piece of Me.
In
turns unsettling and very funny, The Rage Room is a
berserk science-fiction satire of toxic masculinity, narrated by your
guide, Sharps, the neurotic, rage-filled Jason Bateman of the future.
There are lines and descriptions that will stop you dead in your
tracks and make you take notes.
– Evan Munday, The
Dead Kid Detective Agency series
In
her latest captivating book, de Nikolits proffers not only a roller
coaster of entertainment, but also, sharp political commentary in
complicated times. The Rage Room is an intricately
woven dystopian world, rich in strong female characters who easily
whisk readers to a world of futuristic follies. Move over George
Orwell – de Nikolits shows us how the future can be scary,
exciting, and above all, female.
– Kelly S. Thompson, National
Bestseller author of Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from
the Forces.
Lisa
de Nikolits is the internationally award-winning author of ten novels
(all Inanna Publications). No Fury Like That was published in Italian
in 2019 by Edizione Le Assassine as Una furia dell’altro mondo. Her
short fiction and poetry have also been published in various
anthologies and journals internationally. She is a member of the
Mesdames of Mayhem, the Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime,
The Australian Crime Writers, The Short Fiction Mystery Association
and the International Thriller Writers. Originally from South Africa,
Lisa de Nikolits came to Canada in 2000. She lives and writes in
Toronto.
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