Flicker City Phantoms Dead New World: A Cozy Sci-Fi Adventure, Book 1, (Paperback)

<p><b>Technology has raised the dead, but their new lease on life isn't all it's cracked up to be, in the first book of this cozy cyber-noir duology.</b></p><p><i>Hildy Doval is dead--and still unemployed . .</i> .</p><p>Humanity wasn't quite ready for immortality, even in 3025. Ever since the Flicker/Helix company "cured" death with technologically advanced holographic hardware, flicker ghosts have been secondary citizens, lacking purpose and agency. </p><p>Spending her afterlife in a boarding house in Hypatia City, Hildy is the least-requested flicker-ghost at Carlotta Sun's Purgatory House for Spectral Services. At Carlotta Sun's, Hildy competes daily for ghost gigs against her more marketable housemates: the flighty musician Eyvind, desperate to compose the masterpiece he never got to in life, and Anjali, an imperious silent-film extra whose single surviving motion picture shot her to post-mortem stardom despite it being based on a lie. </p><p>Meanwhile, a shadowy, headless ghost called the Graverobber has been spotted emerging from holographic billboards, snatching the resurrected from their so-called lives and sowing chaos throughout the city. When one of their fellow boarders goes missing, Hildy and her friends find themselves at the center of a highly publicized mystery. With only two months to go before a crucial election that'll decide the future of all specters, they must determine who the Graverobber is&amp;#8213;and, more importantly, where they belong in this <i>dead new world.</i></p>

• Flicker City Phantoms Dead New World: A Cozy Sci-Fi Adventure, Book 1, (Paperback)
• Author: Podium Publishing
• ISBN: 9798347040063
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-11-10
• Page Count: 336