The Rage Room
by Lisa de Nikolits
Genre: Speculative Fiction
What if you had a chance to fix the worst mistake of your life…but only
made things worse? The Rage Room dives into dystopia with an
extraordinary tale about choices and second chances. Sharps Barkley
jumps back in time and finds that changing the future isn’t as easy
as he thought.
Set in 2055, our plastic world is run by robots, fueled by
consumerism, twisted religion and virtual data. Satellites control the
weather, food is grown in laboratories. Arts and culture are distant
memories. Beneath the sunny skies and behind the garbage-free suburban
McMansions live deeply disturbed, materialistic families. Prescribed
visits to rage rooms lance desperate anger, boredom and discontent but
the band-aid fix hides disturbing governmental motives.
An intense and provocative exploration of societal coded messages, The
Rage Room is an action-packed story of unravelling and alternate
realities, of disturbing and searching re-runs. Can the army of feminist
hackers restore Mother Nature?
Can love triumph over fear? And, ultimately, can the children be
saved?
Dark, fun, weird, imaginative, The Rage Room is a dystopic
ride perfect for the anxieties and conditions of the present day. The
paranoia of Sharps Barkley seeps into you, propelling this thriller that
will keep you guessing to the very end.
– David Albertyn, author of Undercard.
Leave it to the wild imagination of Lisa de Nikolits to bring us the
dystopian future of The Rage Room, an extraordinarily inventive speculative fiction thriller with a
decidedly feminist bent. Fast-paced, funny, bold, and completely
engrossing, The Rage Room is an allegory, a cautionary tale, and a rollicking good read that will
stay with you long after the last page has been turned.
– Amy Jones, author of We’re All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me.
In turns unsettling and very funny, The Rage Room is a berserk science-fiction satire of toxic masculinity, narrated by
your guide, Sharps, the neurotic, rage-filled Jason Bateman of the future.
There are lines and descriptions that will stop you dead in your tracks
and make you take notes.
– Evan Munday, The Dead Kid Detective Agency series
In her latest captivating book, de Nikolits proffers not only a roller
coaster of entertainment, but also, sharp political commentary in
complicated times. The Rage Room is an intricately woven dystopian world, rich in strong female characters
who easily whisk readers to a world of futuristic follies. Move over
George Orwell – de Nikolits shows us how the future can be scary,
exciting, and above all, female.
– Kelly S. Thompson, National Bestseller author of Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces.
REALTIME.
I couldn’t live like this. And I couldn’t let my children live
like this either. There was only one
solution. I had to go back and kill them. I’d never been so
certain of anything in my life.
I held my wrist out. The gates opened and through I went.
But when I opened my eyes, I wasn’t in my house. I was in the rage
room. I smelled of asphalt
and diesel. I held a hammer and I was poised, mid swing.
This was all wrong. I was supposed to be back in my house, back in
the clean world where I’d
be in control. What was going on?
And then it all came back to me.
Lisa de Nikolits is the internationally award-winning author of ten novels
(all Inanna Publications). No Fury Like That was published in Italian in
2019 by Edizione Le Assassine as Una furia dell’altro mondo. Her short
fiction and poetry have also been published in various anthologies and
journals internationally. She is a member of the Mesdames of Mayhem, the
Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime, The Australian Crime Writers, The
Short Fiction Mystery Association and the International Thriller Writers.
Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits came to Canada in 2000. She
lives and writes in Toronto.
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