8 Indie Books To Read This Summer

The very wise people at Kirkus wrote an article last month titled ‘8 Indie Books To Read This Summer’. One of them was mine and I didn’t even notice.

Here’s what they said:

“Set in a future Germany, Reality Testing by Grant Price teems with cyborgs and machine-enhanced humans. Identity theft takes on new meaning when a woman awakens to find herself transplanted into another body. This inventive world, where sexism, climate devastation, and capitalism have run amok, is “a bracing blast of neo-cyberpunk.”

Cyborgs is a bit of a stretch, but whatever. I’m a Donna Haraway fan.

The whole “ramping Reality Testing up for its print release by Black Rose” will be starting soon. Stay tuned for that. It’s going to be a real treat.

photo by alex knight.

Starred review from Kirkus for Reality Testing

Once in a while, in this endless sucking quagmire we call existence, something out of the ordinary occurs that lifts the spirits to heights that tend to be experienced exclusively by fortunate children at Christmas time.

Today I am a fortunate child.

Kirkus, in its strange, infinite reviewing wisdom, has seen fit to award my plucky upstart sci fi novel Reality Testing a starred review. They call it….

A bracing blast of neo-cyberpunk with some smart tweaks to the operating system

Other recent books that have received starred reviews include:

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

Good company to be in. They’re lucky to have me.

Here is the review.

NEONIFY MY LIFE