Found a review of Midwest Chrome, a cyberpunk book set in the american midwest
https://greasygoat.substack.com/p/arc-review-midwest-chrome-by-michael
The review is perhaps a little dramatic but I'm still looking forward to the book. My favorite cyberpunk scenes and stories take place in rural areas (Turner's brother's place in Count Zero, basically all of The Peripheral and some of the later scenes in Virtual Light). so I'm interested to see what they do with the setting here:
I feel like the review didn't say much about what the story was about so here's the description from [the publisher](https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/midwestern-chrome-print) :
> A burned-out detective trapped in a cold case finds a curious lead—the severed head of an android who cries for help in the voice of his dead wife. It has her memories. It has her personality. But is it…Elsie?
> Welcome to the frayed-wire-and-spare-parts autopsy of a near-future Nebraska, lit bright by neon promises and smoldering with broken dreams. Society is high on body augmentations and self-interest and low on moral reckonings.
> Harlan's cold case takes center stage in the novella Our Bird Trills Mechanical, but desperate people willing to do whatever it takes fill the pages: people like Lucian Lucky, an augment-addicted prizefighter who must decide if the cost of winning is worth the size of the purse; or Javier, a love-struck henchman who’s fallen for the niece of his violent boss.
> Freaks, fighters, fixers and f&%k-ups: fortune favors the corrupt in MIDWESTERN CHROME.
The review is perhaps a little dramatic but I'm still looking forward to the book. My favorite cyberpunk scenes and stories take place in rural areas (Turner's brother's place in Count Zero, basically all of The Peripheral and some of the later scenes in Virtual Light). so I'm interested to see what they do with the setting here:
I feel like the review didn't say much about what the story was about so here's the description from [the publisher](https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/midwestern-chrome-print) :
> A burned-out detective trapped in a cold case finds a curious lead—the severed head of an android who cries for help in the voice of his dead wife. It has her memories. It has her personality. But is it…Elsie?
> Welcome to the frayed-wire-and-spare-parts autopsy of a near-future Nebraska, lit bright by neon promises and smoldering with broken dreams. Society is high on body augmentations and self-interest and low on moral reckonings.
> Harlan's cold case takes center stage in the novella Our Bird Trills Mechanical, but desperate people willing to do whatever it takes fill the pages: people like Lucian Lucky, an augment-addicted prizefighter who must decide if the cost of winning is worth the size of the purse; or Javier, a love-struck henchman who’s fallen for the niece of his violent boss.
> Freaks, fighters, fixers and f&%k-ups: fortune favors the corrupt in MIDWESTERN CHROME.