Lucky Ghost
The Martingale Cycle
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Lucky Ghost
Narrated by:
Lucy Paterson
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Narrated by:
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Lucy Paterson
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By:
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Matthew Blakstad
Early one morning, blogger Alex Kubelick walks up to a total stranger and slaps him across the face. Hard.
He smiles.
They've both just earned Emoticoin, in a new, all-consuming game that trades real-life emotions for digital currency. Emoticoin is changing the face of the economy - but someone or something is controlling it for their own, dangerous ends.
As Alex picks apart the tangled threads that hold the virtual game together she finds herself on the run from very real enemies. It seems only one person has the answers she seeks. Someone who hides behind the name 'Lucky Ghost'.
But Lucky Ghost will only talk to a young hacker called Thimblerig - the online troll who's been harassing Alex for months.
Will Lucky Ghost lead Alex and Thimblerig to the answers they seek - or to their deaths?
LUCKY GHOST is part of the Martingale cycle, a series of interconnected novels exploring the life of computing pioneer and political radical Elyse Martingale - and her strange afterlife in the 21st century.
(P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2017 Matthew Blakstad
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Critic reviews
An amazing book (Trisha Goddard, BBC Radio London)
A fantastic new novel
A fascinating and hair-raising examination of just how much we are in thrall to computers, and how willingly we give up our privacy.
Embedded with techy jargon and shards of wit, Sockpuppet takes a snapshot of our age of online shaming and oversharing and runs it through a skewed, feverish filter. The result is compelling.
A woven web of tech and trauma, human foibles and group shenanigans all mixed up into a beautiful hotpot of a story where nothing is ever quite as it seems
Nigh on impossible to put down once you've picked it up, it cements Matthew Blakstad's place as a writer of considerable talent, a writer who knows exactly how to grab his audience, and keep them involved - and highly entertained - until his story is done.
Lucky Ghost is way more visionary than its predecessor, Sockpuppet, yet its thought-provoking prophesy remains both powerful and effective
Brave, bold and dare I say, even, ominous! . . . The Martingale Cycle is a wonderfully thrilling series
If you could sum up Lucky Ghost in three words, what would they be?
Futuristic, dystopin-esque, thrillingWhat other book might you compare Lucky Ghost to, and why?
The Feed - based around an example of the constant move towards digital and cyber-technology and the impacts it can have when it gets taken too far.Which character – as performed by Lucy Paterson – was your favourite?
Alex - tenacious, determined and occasionally gung-hoWas there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Perhaps the latter moents of the book and the honest exchange between Thimblerig and Alex - the point at which Alex makes a full decision on whether to live in the Strange or The RealAny additional comments?
Lucky Ghost is a thrilling and fun look at the rise of technology, social media and cryto-currency in the mainstream lives, perhaps not too far removed from reality given that children of three are more at home with an iPad than a pen and pencil these days. combining political corruption, organised crime and hackers, this is a fast moving, tech-focused read that has you engaged in the characters, even if they are not always likeable, invested in their story and, more than anything, intrigued to find out what is going on and what is the true identify of 'Lucky Ghost'. A fantastic read/listen and the audio version is brilliantly narrated and brings the story to life.A sign of things to come?
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