One Day in the Life of Alexa

by Lisa Mason

Overview

Alexa Denisovitch, a refugee from Kosovo during the 1999 war, is just seventeen when she is accepted by GenGineer Laboratories as a Tester for Longeva, a revolutionary additive that may significantly extend her longevity
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But becoming a Tester has unintended consequences and Longeva causes devastating unforeseen side effects
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Confronting environmental, political, and personal perils of the future, Alexa must grapple with the tough questions of life, love, and death.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158820496
Publisher:	Bast Books
Publication date:	08/14/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	221
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Lisa Mason has published nine novels, including Summer of Love, a San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book and Philip K. Dick Award finalist, and The Gilded Age, a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book, a collection of previously published short fiction, Strange Ladies: 7 Stories, and thirty stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide..

Mason published her first story, “Arachne,” in Omni and has since published short fiction in Omni, Full Spectrum, Universe, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Unique, Transcendental Tales, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Immortal Unicorn, Tales of the Impossible, Desire Burn, Fantastic Alice, The Shimmering Door, Hayakawa Science Fiction Magazine, Unter Die Haut, and others. Her stories have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Her Omni story, “Tomorrow’s Child,” sold outright as a feature film to Universal Studios and is in development.

Lisa Mason lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband, the artist and jeweler Tom Robinson.

Editorial Reviews

One Day in the Life of Alexa, by Lisa Mason (Bast Books, 2017) incorporates lively prose, past/present time jumps, and the consequences of longevity technology ... [An] absorbing read with an appealing narrator and subtly powerful emotional rhythms.

Deborah Ross