The Glitch Hunter

Autorentext

Aku calls a dozen places home. Born in India, raised in the middle east, pottered around Australia for a while, now living in Vienna, Austria with her husband and house plants. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Media and Communication and a Master's degree in Multimedia Design. After a 7-year career in design, web programming and digital strategy, she gave it all up to pursue her dream of writing. She's a millennial. You can tell, can't you? Her stories are inspired by cultural conflict, problems in physics, mythology, pop culture, and all the wonderful weirdos she has met during her travels. In her free time, she consumes copious amounts of books, movies, anime, podcasts and TV shows. If you bring up philosophical conundrums raised by Star Trek, cultural symbology in Studio Ghibli movies, or the latest episode of Radiolab, you better have a few hours to kill. Basic courtesy. Aku also enjoys spicy dim sums, adventurous holidays, wild dancing, and long walks through the multiverse.

Klappentext

LIFE IS A COSMIC COMPUTER SIMULATION THAT CAN MALFUNCTION AT ANY TIME. The prophet said so and the gods-fearing folk of Domaan city certainly believe it. It's why Rhea Harte has a job. On a Friday afternoon, as she investigates yet another falsely-reported "glitch", she daydreams of the old Terran flatfilms she will binge-watch later. Time may or may not be an illusion, but a free weekend is a profoundly real thing. Then a glitch drastically changes the course of her life. Her only surviving kin goes missing under baffling circumstances, sucking her into a mystery that turns increasingly paranormal with every clue. With help from a failed scientist named Sam and a transhuman shaman called Kunai, Rhea must confront her own harrowing past, answer impossible questions, and hold on to her sanity as she chases down a dangerous kidnapper who may or may not be a mythical demon. Her secret weapon is a boon from the gods themselves, which means she has no idea how to use it. The Glitch Hunter is the first book of the Too Much Universe series. Book 2 out in Fall 2020.