Review: Soundscape by Royce Flippin
★★★★½ 
Soundscape by Royce Flippin is a smart fast-paced thriller, set against an unlikely backdrop of great rock music and shifting political tension. Homeland Security and the Culture Hygiene Police bring to mind George Orwell’s legendary dystopian world. However, the year is not 1984 but 2024, and here you can be arrested simply for possessing illegal rock music recordings. The threat of nuclear war has enabled a corrupt government to take hold, and the future appears to rest on the shoulders of physicist Blake Hawkes and his allies.
From the get-go, Flippin grabs the reader’s attention, with a flowing written […]
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