Working Stiffs
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
American Book Fest 2017 Science Fiction Finalist Joe Warren, an unemployed electrical engineer, has a terminally ill girlfriend and a bank account bumping rock bottom. Jobs are scarce in 2050, since nanotechnology has created the ability to animate the recently deceased, who are put to work performing menial labor at low wages. These Revivants have glutted the job market, leaving their living counterparts out in the cold. Joe goes looking for a helping hand and mistakenly gets arrested with a group of freedom fighters. The only cause Joe wants to fight for is Joe, but federal agents coerce him into spying on the Children of Liberty. When Joe reluctantly infiltrates the protest group, he finds something he never expected or wanted. Friends. And he discovers that maybe there are things in life worth fighting—and dying—for.
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Joe Warren is an unemployed electrical technician with a very ill girlfriend. The world has been changed when the government found a way to use nanobots to reanimate the dead to do everyday jobs. There is high unemployment and unrest because of this. Joe gets arrested with a group of Freedom Fighters while trying to get medical help for his girlfriend.
He is coerced by government agents to infiltrate the Children of Liberty to save his girlfriend. But he finds that he has found something he never had before in this group.
This had a bit of a slow start (mainly I just didn't like the characters too much) but the last third was explosive and I couldn't put it down.
