Neon Empire
by Drew Minh
“Minh creates a nonstop social media frenzy amid a rich cyberpunk landscape in this vivid debut.”
—Publishers Weekly
Imagine a near future where social-media influencers are given their own city, a massive riff on Las Vegas set in the plains of central America called Eutopia.
There, the world’s top influencers compete in a dog-eat-dog ecosystem of likes, trends, comments, and advertising that’s half guerilla marketing, half guerilla warfare. Against this backdrop, a has-been Hollywood director and an investigative journalist race to uncover the relationship between a rising tide of violence and corporate corruption.
Praise
“Minh creates a nonstop social media frenzy amid a rich cyberpunk landscape in this vivid debut.”
“Sci-fi fans will want to read this story of #SocialMediaDystopianism before it becomes a reality.”