The Download (Portland Cycle Book 1)
Book Details
Author(s)Joseph Kaye
ISBN / ASINB005BW2ZAK
ISBN-13978B005BW2ZA1
Sales Rank1,698,456
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The Download introduces a quiet post-apocalyptic world and a strong female lead character.
Excerpt:
Something was happening nearby, and Worcester wasn’t going to be around much longer. Not like it used to be, at least. And what was going to happen in Worcester is what years later made Julia able to point a handgun at a man named Dawes in an apartment building in a largely abandoned Portland, Oregon and be absolutely certain she’d kill him without hesitation.
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The pills worked. No one had any explanation for the coincidences, but the pills seemed to work just fine. They said that some people were naturally immune and would never experience download, but the rest of us could prevent it from happening by taking a lot of pills. It would start with someone noticing something unlikely – an old friend would show up, you might find a cigarette lighter that you lost years ago, you might be singing a song only to turn on the radio and find that song playing. There was a relationship between how improbable an event was and the likelihood of being taken. A little coincidence here or there might not be a big thing, but they could add up. The more coincidences, the higher the improbability – eventually it became inevitable. Something would download into you, into your body, and you would become that thing. No one knew what happened to the original you.
Approximately 11,000 words; part one in a four-part series.
Excerpt:
Something was happening nearby, and Worcester wasn’t going to be around much longer. Not like it used to be, at least. And what was going to happen in Worcester is what years later made Julia able to point a handgun at a man named Dawes in an apartment building in a largely abandoned Portland, Oregon and be absolutely certain she’d kill him without hesitation.
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The pills worked. No one had any explanation for the coincidences, but the pills seemed to work just fine. They said that some people were naturally immune and would never experience download, but the rest of us could prevent it from happening by taking a lot of pills. It would start with someone noticing something unlikely – an old friend would show up, you might find a cigarette lighter that you lost years ago, you might be singing a song only to turn on the radio and find that song playing. There was a relationship between how improbable an event was and the likelihood of being taken. A little coincidence here or there might not be a big thing, but they could add up. The more coincidences, the higher the improbability – eventually it became inevitable. Something would download into you, into your body, and you would become that thing. No one knew what happened to the original you.
Approximately 11,000 words; part one in a four-part series.
