Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick

Zoey Ashe grew up in a trailer park and now runs her dead father's operation out of a mansion in Tabula Ra$a, a city built by and for people with more money than restraint. She did not want any of it. The staff she inherited are competent, well armed and not remotely inclined to let her walk away.

This time the threat is not a rival crew but a crowd. A movement forms online, decides Zoey is the problem, and starts organising in public, where the feeds carry every moment of it live and the audience votes on what should happen next.

Jason Pargin writes near-future satire in which the technology is absurd and the human behaviour is not. Second in the Zoey Ashe series, after Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits.