anthophile
noun
1. an organism that visits flowers.
2. a person who loves flowers.

Jonathan Sweety is a nobody, a bored and disgruntled hospitality worker living on a backwater mining asteroid known as A-Typical. As a hopeless VR junkie, he squanders what little credits he earns at the simulation vats, feeding his addiction to virtual reality adventures that offer an escape from mundane materiality. But when Jonathan meets Bud, a seven-foot cactus of the lab-grown race of plant people known as Agave, his everyday life soon becomes more exciting than even his wildest of fabricated realities. Friendship escalates to romance, and Jonathan discovers the wonder of botany… but it’s not all roses. When Bud reveals that Agave abductions have been linked to a drug called Ambrosia, Jonathan is thrown into a perilous effort to reveal the grim origins of a narcotic believed to have prophetic properties. Together, plant and human must navigate a sordid rock in space, a corrupt world where other lab-grown races wander, where dog men known as Wolfhounds rule with an iron paw, where politicians and prophets rise up to exercise their tyranny.

Palindrome is a sprawling, sordid, mega-metropolis populated by roborgs, shapeshifers, holographic kids, and rats the size of Labradors. Among its myriad of destitute city-dwellers is Jarred, a down-and-out nobody whose tedious existence amplifies into an ultra-bizarre escapade after meeting Bee, an alluring enigma loaded with bionic upgrades and brimming with Squidge, a coveted drug new to the black market that enhances anything it touches. With Bee by his side and Squidge in his system, Jarred savors a newfound zest for life. But when the founder of Squidge, an unhinged zealot corporate mogul, becomes the target of Bee’s obsessive need for revenge, Jarred finds himself immersed in a violent feud between ex-lovers who have the power to save or destroy the world.

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