I really liked this one. Think sci-fi Civil War. The ultimate in theme park, Civil Warfields, where thousands of reenactors play out the Civil War for keeps. From the back of the book:
On an ordinary Tuesday in November 2012, First Sergeant Matt Storey becomes another afternoon casualty during a bungled Union charge on the Confederates. It's his worst death in several months.
Spectators don't know it, but when these guys 'take a hit', the bullets are real. After every battle, implants stimulate their DNA into self-cloning repair.
...captures a future world of Civil War reenacting gone wrong--where the drive for hardcore authenticity plays out to a dreadful conclusion. (Lance J. Herdegen, author of The Men Stood Like Iron).
...the ultimate war game in a hellish blue-grey Dinsneyland where the bullets and the bleeding are real and the line between life and death ever moving. (Dennis McCann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
On an ordinary Tuesday in November 2012, First Sergeant Matt Storey becomes another afternoon casualty during a bungled Union charge on the Confederates. It's his worst death in several months.
Spectators don't know it, but when these guys 'take a hit', the bullets are real. After every battle, implants stimulate their DNA into self-cloning repair.
...captures a future world of Civil War reenacting gone wrong--where the drive for hardcore authenticity plays out to a dreadful conclusion. (Lance J. Herdegen, author of The Men Stood Like Iron).
...the ultimate war game in a hellish blue-grey Dinsneyland where the bullets and the bleeding are real and the line between life and death ever moving. (Dennis McCann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
