Digital divide - BookWyrm

352 pages

English language

Published June 28, 2013 by A Girl and Her Fed Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-9847375-4-3
OCLC Number:: 868181837

(4 reviews)

Five years ago, U.S. Army Warrant Officer Rachel Peng joined the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies, a top-secret federal agency which blended cutting-edge cybernetics with communication and information technologies. Today, OACET has gone public, its Agents revealing themselves to the world as cyborgs capable of talking to, and taking control of, any networked machine. Rachel's new job as the OACET liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police is not what she would call fun. She and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, are usually bored senseless or are fighting with their coworkers. Neither of them are prepared when a routine act of harassment plunges them into a murder investigation. And they certainly didn't expect for the evidence to point directly at Rachel and the other cyborgs. The murder is only the beginning. Soon, Rachel and Santino find themselves deep in a game of cat-and-mouse with a killer and his …

Five years ago, U.S. Army Warrant Officer Rachel Peng joined the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies, a top-secret federal agency which blended cutting-edge cybernetics with communication and information technologies. Today, OACET has gone public, its Agents revealing themselves to the world as cyborgs capable of talking to, and taking control of, any networked machine. Rachel's new job as the OACET liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police is not what she would call fun. She and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, are usually bored senseless or are fighting with their coworkers. Neither of them are prepared when a routine act of harassment plunges them into a murder investigation. And they certainly didn't expect for the evidence to point directly at Rachel and the other cyborgs. The murder is only the beginning. Soon, Rachel and Santino find themselves deep in a game of cat-and-mouse with a killer and his hidden agenda. The killer has planned for every contingency, every possible outcome... except one. Rachel herself.

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rascalking reviewed Digital divide by K. B. Spangler

Review of 'Digital divide' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I've been reading A Girl and Her Fed since within a week of it launching...as usual, I've forgotten who turned me on to it, but it was almost certainly another webcomicker. It's been one of my favorites ever since. So full disclosure, I'm familiar with the world Digital Divide is set in, and I was predisposed to like it. Hell, I bought one of her in-progress versions as a way to support the comic (waited for the full version to read it). But honestly, I was not expecting this.

The story in Digital Divide is set in a five year gap between chapters of the comic. it does have a couple of appearances of the titular Fed, but none, IIRC, of the Girl. What it does have is a more in-depth exploration of the ideas she's been playing with in the comic. Most impressive, to me at least, she finds …

I've been reading A Girl and Her Fed since within a week of it launching...as usual, I've forgotten who turned me on to it, but it was almost certainly another webcomicker. It's been one of my favorites ever since. So full disclosure, I'm familiar with the world Digital Divide is set in, and I was predisposed to like it. Hell, I bought one of her in-progress versions as a way to support the comic (waited for the full version to read it). But honestly, I was not expecting this.

The story in Digital Divide is set in a five year gap between chapters of the comic. it does have a couple of appearances of the titular Fed, but none, IIRC, of the Girl. What it does have is a more in-depth exploration of the ideas she's been playing with in the comic. Most impressive, to me at least, she finds a way to give the story a more serious tone without killing the fun, breezy vibe the comic has. Maybe it's just the relative lack of dick jokes, maybe it's because the ghosts and talking koala are missing. But I was astounded at how it felt so much an extension of the comics, and at the same time so much a thing unto itself. Not an easy balance to strike, but she nailed it. I couldn't put it down, and I can't wait for her to write the next one.

So if you like procedurals, or you like stories about cyborgs, or political intrigue, or hell, if you just like a well written story...do yourself a favor and pick up a copy today. Then check out the comic when you're done.