Cupid Part 1 of 5 eBook Joseph Turkot
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You live in a spinning tube of metal.
Ash-mixed whips of air rise to Center Sky. Looking up, you think you see the soft green fields through the filth. The white lattice of wealth sprawled along the verdant curve of Bright Side. Families and love live there. The seats of power. But for you that place is a dream—you live in Cupid. Sector 6 slum to be exact. Your education in sex work and drug usage finishes this semester. And at eighteen, it’s time to enter the working world at last. Still, it’s a better life than sectors 7 and 8.
Things might change though. Douglas Triumph has just been elected President of Lutalica (the 5th Earth-launched tube colony). He’s won on the promise that he will make the tube great again. Make things as good as they are back on Earth. But you and everyone else in Sector 6 know he’s talking about one side of the tube—the Bright Side.
He’s on TV again tonight. Announcing that at last he’s implementing his first promise—to bring capitalism back onto its proper course—encouragement of competition at the genetic level. The world was proud of its eugenics programs back in the early 1900s, he says through the screen. Great names—the Rockefellers, Roosevelt, Churchill—they were thwarted before the full fruit of capitalism came to bear. Prevented by a historical overreaction to one man—Hitler. Hitler went about it all wrong, but we can’t let his mistake taint our progress any longer, he says. And as Triumph begins a sermon, explaining how the roundup will occur, how the gutters will be cleared, how he will put a stop to all unlawful movement between Sectors—send the illegals back to 6, 7, and 8—you turn off the TV. Because Dad wants to have a cake for Mom’s birthday. She’s been dead for 3 years, but he doesn’t care. You still celebrate.
She died on the job. HTR. The Helen Trigger Retrovirus.
They taught you the statistics in school. Sex workers can mitigate their risks by following the rules. Obeying the law. Doing the right mix of drugs. You do your best to listen. You know she didn’t, but you still loved her. And so did Dad.
But something is hanging in the air. A gloom over the candles. The palpable reek of Triumph’s words. Dad says that the roundup will be nothing like what he’s broadcasting on TV. That he’s out to cull the population and overload us here. That they’re not just going to dump the trash from their side into the high sectors. That they’ll be deselecting in Sector 6 too.
Content Warning This is a serial work of fiction. The full novel is being published as the author writes it. Each part makes up a 20 to 25k word segment of the story.
Cupid Part 1 of 5 eBook Joseph Turkot
Orwellian and updated for the latest US election (President Triumph making things great again). This is a serial intro that provides the back-story of the economic/political environment of the Lutalica, the 5th Earth-launched tube colony. The story centers around Sofia, a near HS graduate in Sector 6, which is a bleak environment, but better than Sectors 7 and 8. She has drugs and Sex (career) to look forward to.Staying true to the Orwellian template, those with power have money and the best life (Sector 1). It combines part blood-line and part segregation; Hilter was right...just wrong in method is the theme, with Triumph using genetics to make things great again. I can't tell if the author is a Leftist or simply playing on current affairs to paint a rather dystopian environment for the off-Terra humans, but it is fairly forthright in which direction this series will take.
I assume Sofia will rise above and lead a revolution to destroy the Caste system of off-world living; toppling the regime, and bringing about a Utopian setting for future generations. This is just a guess though as the installment concludes with a great deal of the story left untold.
Media is controlled, history is written by the privileged, and the police-state keeps people in line and in their sector.
In all, it was a short, entertaining jaunt. The writing is pretty good. The environment is wonderfully bleak. 3.4 Stars for me. If I stumble across part two, I may pick it up. The characters have potential and I'd like more insight into Clue.
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Cupid Part 1 of 5 eBook Joseph Turkot Reviews
I'm giving Cupid 1 low marks for a number of reasons.
1. Our main character, a teenage girl, spends too time describing
the dystopia she lives in, both directly and indirectly. I hate that. I
prefer the "learn as you go" approach.
2. Even though the story takes place in the future aboard a large
space colony, the detailed description of the culture did nothing but
make me angry. From the segregation of the classes, a drug as panacea for
the masses, the ideology of their leaders, a deadly sexually transmitted
disease, even the name of their glorious leader, all of it is such a highly
probable and extremely possible extention of the current dystopia on this
planet that I had to stop reading till my blood pressure came down. I hate
being reminded that there are an inordinately large number of evil people on
this planet.
3. After all the explanations and foundations of the story are
laid out, the main character starts out on her adventure and the story ends.
Now I'm going to have to wait for the next book to see what happens. I hate
waiting.
4. I like the premise, a young lady not so wrapped up in her own
little world that she can't see the world around her, sets out, as much by
curiosity as by immediate threat, to find out what's really going on.
5. In general, this first book is an extravagant banquet of condiments.
Where you only catch occasional wiffs of roast and onions coming from the kitchen.
The next book had better come with meat and potatoes.
6. I hate writing reviews.
Great read. Wish more books wore free.
This is a 200 page novella that is the beginning of a series. I don't want to.have to pay over and over to read a chapter of a book. It wasn't very good either. Dull flay characters
I read the entire book despite the obvious liberal agenda and blatant exaggerated comparison to current politics and figures... mostly out of boredom. I never got caught up in the story or felt like I couldn't wait to find out what happens next. In fact I had such a lack of interest that I will not be reading any more books in this series.
I really don't like first person stories but this was written wonderful! Be careful when you pick it up because you won't be able to put it down! Can't wait for the next book!!
The 3rd person style of the writing was strange to me. The constant "you", "your", etc didn't help put me into the story, it kept pulling me out. It seemed to be leading to a great read, but I just couldn't continue.
This isn't The Rain, but then again neither is anything else. Mr. Turkot always seems to manage to reinvent the post-apocalypse with each series of books. He also manages to develop his characters very nicely without wasting his words or the reader's time. The prose isn't flowery and overly descriptive, and that lends somewhat of a stark feel to his books. Given the nature of the story he is telling, that is completely appropriate if a little hard to get used to at first. I won't go into the plot; you can read the description for yourself. Get the book, read the book, and then wait impatiently for the next one just like the rest of us are. If I have one complaint, it is that he doesn't write as fast as I read.
Orwellian and updated for the latest US election (President Triumph making things great again). This is a serial intro that provides the back-story of the economic/political environment of the Lutalica, the 5th Earth-launched tube colony. The story centers around Sofia, a near HS graduate in Sector 6, which is a bleak environment, but better than Sectors 7 and 8. She has drugs and Sex (career) to look forward to.
Staying true to the Orwellian template, those with power have money and the best life (Sector 1). It combines part blood-line and part segregation; Hilter was right...just wrong in method is the theme, with Triumph using genetics to make things great again. I can't tell if the author is a Leftist or simply playing on current affairs to paint a rather dystopian environment for the off-Terra humans, but it is fairly forthright in which direction this series will take.
I assume Sofia will rise above and lead a revolution to destroy the Caste system of off-world living; toppling the regime, and bringing about a Utopian setting for future generations. This is just a guess though as the installment concludes with a great deal of the story left untold.
Media is controlled, history is written by the privileged, and the police-state keeps people in line and in their sector.
In all, it was a short, entertaining jaunt. The writing is pretty good. The environment is wonderfully bleak. 3.4 Stars for me. If I stumble across part two, I may pick it up. The characters have potential and I'd like more insight into Clue.
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