Cumulus - Eliot Peper.epub

In the not-so-distant future, economic inequality and persistent surveillance push Oakland to the brink of civil war.

Lilly Miyamoto is a passionate analog photographer striving to pursue an ever more distant dream. Huian Li is preeminent among the Silicon Valley elite as the founder and CEO of the pervasive tech giant Cumulus. Graham Chandler is a frustrated intelligence agent forging a new path through the halls of techno-utopian royalty. But when Huian rescues Lilly from a run-in with private security forces, it sets off a chain of events that will change their lives and the world.

The adventure accelerates into a mad dash of political intrigue, relentless ambition, and questionable salvation. Will they survive to find themselves and mend a broken system?

Reviews:

"Cumulus is your new favorite surveillance-fueled dystopian novel. It's a future we can all recognize - and one that we should all be genuinely afraid of."
-Ars Technica

"A gritty view of the future of economic inequality and surveillance."
-David Brin, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell award-winning author

"Cumulus is a prophetic Bay Area thriller, a Jason-Bourne-meets-Silicon-Valley story of escalating technology, inequality and a crumbling state. When a former CIA-operative-turned-hired-gun joins forces with tech giant Cumulus, cracks in the digital facade emerge, laid bare by a powerful and simple analog alternative. In today's world where intimate personal details are just another row in someone's 'big data,' Cumulus is a stark reminder that data are power--and absolute data corrupt absolutely."
-Andrew Chamberlain, Ph.D., Chief Economist, Glassdoor

"A fun read full of provocative ideas. Cumulus is a near-future technothriller focused on issues of income inequality and corporate power."
-Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media

"Cumulus grapples with technology oligarchs, their influence over politics, and the outcomes for everyone else."
-Endless Magazine

"Exhilarating and provocative, Cumulus is a richly imagined narrative set in a future threatening to become the present. Peper riffs memorably on our current zeitgeist and wrestles with the social implications of technology with a spellbinding adventure that moves at breakneck speed. The digital era begets the analog revolution. Be afraid, be very afraid. Read it now."
-Andrew Keen, author of The Internet Is Not The Answer