Rewind

Title: REWIND
Author: Greg Shemkovitz

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There’s no such thing as a stranger. 

For as long as anyone can remember, the System’s identity recognition program has brought safety and comfort to System City, feeding them the identities of those around them through a chip in their brain. That is until the System is corrupted by a virus, scrambling names and throwing the city into chaos. 

With identities shuffling every few hours, tensions rise around the city, forcing leaders to find a scapegoat. Who better to blame than the hundreds of unwanted and unmistakable orphan girls, known as Haydens? Inevitably, as prominent figures begin to publicly stoke hatred, a general distrust of Haydens grows into violent disdain.

One of those orphans, Haddy Hayden, isn’t affected by the ever-mixing identities, not since an accident “fried” her chip and cut her off from the System entirely. Now, it’s up to Haddy to find the person responsible for corrupting the System and to bring them to justice before ignorant mobs kill them all.

ISBN: 978-1-951393-40-3
Price: $14.95 (paperback), $4.99 (ebook)
Release date: November 26, 2024

Praise for REWIND:

“He’s done it again, paired the playful with the apocalyptic and made my brain spin in his galaxy. REWIND is a book you want to spend time in. I read slower as I reached the last pages because I didn’t want it to end.”
— Kirk Lynn, author of Rules for Werewolves

“Greg Shemkovitz’s Rewind is a powerful mix of paranoia and hi-tech malfunction set in a near-future dystopian city. A gripping story which radically destroys our tech-friendly narratives and remind us that behind the nodes, the diodes and the numbers, human lives are at play. A vital read in these “A.I. positive” times.”
— Seb Doubinsky, author of The Sum of All Things, The Horror, and Paperclip

“In the vein of Kazuo Ishiguro, Shemkovitz delivers a literary science- fiction novel that transcends genre conventions to explore the fragile nature of identity. Shemkovitz’s detailed, character-driven approach to storytelling will leave readers utterly immersed in the protagonists’ fight against technology for their very existence.”
— Eric Z. Weintraub, author of South of Sepharad