{"product_id":"gigs-9781603095938","title":"Gigs","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mark Mosedale\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Top Shelf Productions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Top Shelf Productions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dystopian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.I. took the work. Gigs replaced jobs. Ordinary people are left to scrape together lives in a world that's no longer built for them. These are their stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a frighteningly near future where Basic Income is supplemented by gig work assigned by \"the app\"...an octogenarian punk and a lonely young worker seek escape through music. A street artist makes art by night and paints over it by day. A has-been detective chases a case into a forgotten world. A drug runner makes a long, strange delivery. A writer marks her days on a decaying space station she can't leave. And a refugee asks for help in the last free place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a hard-won blend of biting satire and humanistic passion, two creators from the North of England weave together six divergent chapters into an extraordinary graphic novel. \u003ci\u003eGigs\u003c\/i\u003e is both a powerful warning about the oppressive world to come and a defiant celebration of the humanity that will sprout up in the cracks.\u003cbr\u003e\"A sharp, funny look at where the future's heading and what we can do about it. Emotive, thought-provoking, beautifully drawn and written with wit, this is the sort of science-fiction we need more of.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- Adrian Tchaikovsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthor of the Hugo Award-winning Children of Time series.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Top Shelf Productions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47967060983959,"sku":"9781603095938","price":1934.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781603095938.webp?v=1782913045","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gigs-9781603095938","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}