The Overnoise

Summary

Perfect for fans of Marion’s bestselling Warm Bodies and speculative novels with a twist, The Overnoise is about connection—to the web, and to each other—that asks how far we are willing to go protect what we love.

All Robin Conway wants is to finish her new album—and for it to do well enough enough to keep her label from dropping her. But the world seems to have other ideas.

It starts when Infinite Connection goes live—a new kind of global wireless service that brings instant connectivity to everyone, everywhere. This evolution of the internet makes everything fast, cheap, and easy, a convenient digital utopia, but brings with it a low, dissonant hum: an “overnoise.” It’s impossible to escape, but quiet enough to live with … for most.

But not for Robin. And that’s before it starts getting louder, and louder—and as devices replace genuine connection, a few begin to wonder how much we’re willing to sacrifice in the name of progress. Someone has to do something radical, and no one is more surprised than Robin that it might be her …