K. C. Alexander: SINless series [Spotlight]
“Sci-fi that’s slick, sharp, and snarky…”—Chuck Wendig
K. C. Alexander is the author of Necrotech—a transhumanist sci-fi called “a speed freak rush” by NYT bestseller Richard Kadrey and “a violent thrillride” by award-nominated Stephen Blackmoore. She co-wrote Mass Effect: Andromeda: Nexus Uprising with NYT bestseller Jason M. Hough, Bioware’s first novelization for Mass Effect: Andromeda. Other credits consist of short stories to Fireside magazine and a contribution to Geeky Giving. Specialties include voice-driven prose, imperfect characters, and reckless profanity. Also, creative ways to murder the deserving—in fiction. Probably.
In the SINless books, when badass street merc Riko wakes up with a fat chunk of her memory missing, she dives back into the world of mercenaries and ruthless corporations to get back what she’s lost.
“Riko’s got serious problems,” the author told Writer’s Digest, “not the least of which is her tech-corrupted girlfriend, the mercs who think Riko screwed them over, and a busted brain that may or may not have ruined her reputation for good.”
Read below for the two books in this duology, now available in brand-new eBook editions.
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Necrotech (SINless Book 1)
A filthy city, overpopulated and underregulated, with even less mercy than a rusted pipe to the eye.
For the saints that run it, it’s called home.
Anybody with the right cred can score an upgrade, it’s just a matter of who, what and how much. Good tech, bad tech, big tech, micro tech, it’s all out for grabs. For mercs like Riko, installs give an edge every street fight, every corp raid, and every job demands. She and her team have earned their cred, carved out a patch of hell and live it up. That’s where Riko lives.
Or she did. Until she wakes up in a laboratory, memory shot, body wrecked and tech on the blink. Maybe she slammed too many party favors in some lowlife bar. Maybe she made some bad choices to get there. None of that explains why she finds her girlfriend in the same facility—body going necro and tech on a killing streak. Caught between horror in front and bullets behind, she’s got no choice but to get out alone. And that’s only the beginning.
Now Riko’s dealing with friends on the take, corporations on her ass, and enough rage to burn a soulless city to the ground if that’s what it takes. She’s fighting a war to tear off the scabs of a conspiracy that’ll consume anybody that gets near it—chrome and steel, sinner and saint. Just like it’s consumed her girlfriend. But rage is a hell of a drug, and she’s going to do more than just fight.
She’s going to slaughter…
“Vulgar, vicious, and very very good! Alexander pulls no punches.” — Jason M. Hough, author of Zero World
“Riko is the cyberpunk heroine I’ve been waiting for, struggling with the truth that the tech we embrace to solve our problems just creates new ones, and no one has a chipset to fix humanity’s bugs.” — Kevin Hearne, author of The Iron Druid Chronicles
“NECROTECH is a speed freak rush down mean streets of the digital, the modified, and the just plain crazy. It’s like razors for your brain.”— Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series
“One of the most interesting women protagonists I’ve read in a long time.”— Stephen Blackmoore, author of the noir urban fantasy Dead Things
“Scalding and brutal as a radiation shower, punishing as a street fight, and as sharp as a blade to the jugular, NECROTECH and its badass heroine, Riko, will grab your heart in a diamond steel fist and squeeze it to a pulp.” — Lila Bowen, author of Wake of Vultures
Nanoshock (SINless Book 2)
Cyberpunk fallen angel Riko is back, in KC Alexander’s outrageous sequel to the savage Necrotech.
Being a mercenary isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Especially when Riko’s hard-won reputation has taken a hard dive into fucked. Now she’s fair game for every Tom, Dick and Blow looking to score some cred.
In this city, credibility means everything – there’s no room for excuses. She still doesn’t know what she did to screw up so badly, and chasing every gone-cold lead is only making it worse. Without help and losing ground fast, Riko has a choice: break every rule of the street on her search for answers… or die trying.
“Nanoshock crushes everything in its path. Brutal, unapologetic, sexy cyberpunk, Nanoshock is a steel-fisted punch in the mouth.”— Scott Sigler, #1 bestselling author of the Generations trilogy