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Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick: A Novel (Zoey Ashe, 2) (edição: 2020)

de David Wong (Autor)

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"New York Times bestselling author David Wong's Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the latest-and greatest-sci-fi thriller in the Zoey Ashe Series. Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. A young woman suddenly in charge of the most decadent city in the world. And her very smelly cat. Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit. She finds herself struggling to establish rule over a sprawling empire while Tabula Ra$a's rogue's gallery of larger-than-life crime bosses and corrupt plutocrats smell weakness. Tensions brew across the city. A steamer trunk-sized box arrives at Zoey's door, and she and her bodyguard Wu are shocked to find that it contains a disemboweled corpse, and even more shocked when that corpse, controlled by an unknown party, rises from the box and goes on a rampage through the house. After being subdued, it speaks in an electronic voice, accusing Zoey of being its murderer. Soon, it makes the same claim to the public at large, along with the promise of a cash reward for proof that Zoey and the Suits are behind the crime. Now Zoey is having doubts of her own: Is she 100% sure that someone on her team didn't do this? She also doesn't even have a complete list of what businesses she owns, or what exact laws her organization is still breaking. So what does she really know?"--… (mais)
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Título:Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick: A Novel (Zoey Ashe, 2)
Autores:David Wong (Autor)
Informação:St. Martin's Press (2020), 368 pages
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‘Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick’ is funny as fuck and you should read it now.


That’s it. Review over.


Seriously. Just go buy it.


Okay, okay.... If that wasn’t enough, read on.

‘Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick’ is the sequel to David (‘John Does at the End’) Wong’s 2014 novel ‘Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits’. That first book is a lot of fun, but somehow didn’t quite hit the mark for me. As funny as it was, it failed to hang together as a story. The good news is that the new Zoey Ashe book is more polished and is enjoyable as a sci fi thriller, as well as being very funny indeed. Wong also does a great job of filling new readers in on the events of the first book, so you can skip that one completely if you want to.
Both books are set in Tabula Ra$a, a futuristic, hedonistic, chaotic city that’s like Las Vegas on acid and steroids.Heroine Zoey Ashe is a 23 year old everywoman with fat thighs, a disobedient cat and an extreme case of clumsiness. She’s also the head of a massive criminal organisation, with a crack team of body guards and weapons experts at her disposal (minor spoilers for the first book there, sorry).
The book starts with Zoey getting called to a hostage situation where a cybernetically-enhanced, super-powered incel is throwing vehicles about and threatening to kill dozens of bystanders. Things get crazier after that. And then keep on getting crazier (and funnier) until the end. The blend of humour, inventive sci fi, and plot is pitch perfect throughout. Wong keeps the story interesting and never lets the jokes (of which there are many) get in the way of the thrills. The world of Tabula Ra$a is packed with ridiculously futuristic vehicles, weapons and tech and the story is filled with twists and cliffhangers.
Most impressively, despite the supreme silliness of the book, Wong manages to craft it into a razor sharp satire of modern society. The future he depicts doesn’t necessarily feel like one that could ever happen, but a lot of it is familiar. Its army of disaffected young men trolling women online, its mega corporations that own and control everything, its citizens who willingly broadcast their lives online and surveil each other. Wong dissects many aspects of our daily lives with skill and intelligence, even while h’s making jokes about flatulence and cannibalism.
Even if you’re not a sci fi fan there’s a great deal to enjoy here. Zoey is a massively engaging lead, its full of inventive ideas and the fast-moving plot is a brainstormer. Also, like I said at the start, it’s funny as fuck. You should read it now.







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  whatmeworry | Apr 9, 2022 |
There's exactly one reason why I read David Wong's books, and it's for little gems like this:

> "On the way home I waved to you on the sidewalk, but it turned out it wasn’t you, it was a dumpster full of butts." (Chapter 20, page 187)

There isn't much more than that. He's a funny guy, this David (not his real name), and each of his books tickle my funny bone. But this isn't great literature, even if the title referencing a dick punch wasn't enough of a clue about that. He uses more Deus ex Machinas than a Greek theater group doing a run of classic tragedies. His characters are stock to the point of being cardboard cutouts. His style is pretty much this: build some tension, resolve it with an unexpected twist that wasn't set up at all, end the chapter with a zinger. Rinse and repeat until the various plot elements you dropped in sort of wrap themselves up, eventually.

So yeah, I liked this book. I had fun reading it. I'll keep reading his books. But there's only a small group of people I might actually recommend them to: likeminded people who can (from time to time) enjoy a simple funny story and park their brains outside the door before entering. The rest of you need not apply. ( )
  invisiblelizard | Sep 22, 2021 |
I enjoy David Wong’s books quite a lot. The John Dies at the End series, in particular, was a great read, though it kept giving diminishing returns as the series went on. The Zoey series is going through the same motions. The first book was a fun, light read with some fascinating observations about society, poverty, and criminality. This one—the second—continues that trend, albeit slightly less than its predecessor.

The story doesn’t seem to go anywhere in particular this time. The characters do go through some development, but it feels minor and rushed. It reflects very poorly on Zoey’s entourage, almost all of whom are cardboard cutouts with little personality behind them. Wong attempts some characterization, though they don’t add much to what’s already there in the grand scheme of things. Zoey goes through some post-PTSD motions, and her empathy is highlighted significantly. Even then, it feels somewhat vague and light compared to what could’ve been done. The villains go through similar motions, too, being cartoonishly evil.

The future portrayed here is both utopic and dystopic, with the satire of today’s hyper-connected social media-obsessed world a bit too on the nose. However, the tech is futuristic and fun, the stealth helicopter being the standout. The violence is exciting and gratuitous (no complaint there!), and some of the set pieces are *chef’s kiss*. It feels very visual, almost as if the author wrote this as a movie or a television show. Is there something he hasn’t told us yet?

Overall, it was a fun, light read as it aimed to be. Just don’t expect deep characters—they’re all doing what they must do, no more. If you liked Wong’s other works and the previous book in the series, you’d like this. If you like decent near-future sci-fi, you’ll like this. Don’t expect any insightful commentary, though. ( )
  bdgamer | Sep 10, 2021 |
Zoey Ashe, heiress to her estranged father’s criminal empire, is also extremely hated online because alienated young men. And one of the city’s warlords is apparently inciting that hatred, which becomes very personal, involving her mom and her cat. Wong is good at ridiculous extremes and making fun of his characters’, and by extension our, complicity in systems that are too big to change individually. ( )
  rivkat | Mar 22, 2021 |
It’s nice to read something that’s just a cleanly written, fun story that’s not trying to be a five hundred page epic or engineered toward a movie option.

I think this one’s better than the first (“Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits”) because I found it hard to wrap my head around the world-building and who they characters were (they all play the same role). Maybe now I know what this world is and what platform we’re standing on. The first one had a high-ish learning curve. This one doesn’t.

The basics? We’ve still got Zoey Ashe, a no-name millennial who inherited a city (essentially) after her mob boss father died and left everything to her. That includes all his businesses (legit and illegit), employees, mansion, and personal entourage of elite black ops bodyguards.

And the enemy? This time it’s something a little harder to fight–a throng of anti-woman incel supremacists. That makes the threat sound trivial, but not in a world where they sell cybernetic implants and homing beacons at Walmart. It’s a timely theme–how long and how much are you going to let these cyberbullies control your life. How much power do they really have? How do you fight an enemy that’s essentially a swarm of wasps?

Wong calls this bizarro fiction, but I don’t think so. It’s wacky, with some surreal science-fiction elements. But nothing bizarre. Bizarro is a convention full of William Shatners attacking a cult of Bruce Campbell worshipers. Bizarro is a Santa made entirely of sausages and elves having sex through extra-dimensional panties. Bizarro is your zombie girlfriend taking off her breasts so you can use them as suction cups to scale a wall.

Women may not find this as amusing since seeing Zoey harassed and trolled and threatened when that’s their every day life. But for men, it’s an important step toward understanding what it’s like to be on the receiving end of online misogyny day after day. I highlighted one passage in particular.

“I want, for the first time in my life, to enter an elevator with a man and not stand there with the knowledge that he can overpower me anytime he feels like it. I want to be able to go jogging alone, at night. And when I enter a room, I want the people there to take me seriously, because they know they have to.” ( )
  theWallflower | Jan 21, 2021 |
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"New York Times bestselling author David Wong's Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the latest-and greatest-sci-fi thriller in the Zoey Ashe Series. Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. A young woman suddenly in charge of the most decadent city in the world. And her very smelly cat. Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit. She finds herself struggling to establish rule over a sprawling empire while Tabula Ra$a's rogue's gallery of larger-than-life crime bosses and corrupt plutocrats smell weakness. Tensions brew across the city. A steamer trunk-sized box arrives at Zoey's door, and she and her bodyguard Wu are shocked to find that it contains a disemboweled corpse, and even more shocked when that corpse, controlled by an unknown party, rises from the box and goes on a rampage through the house. After being subdued, it speaks in an electronic voice, accusing Zoey of being its murderer. Soon, it makes the same claim to the public at large, along with the promise of a cash reward for proof that Zoey and the Suits are behind the crime. Now Zoey is having doubts of her own: Is she 100% sure that someone on her team didn't do this? She also doesn't even have a complete list of what businesses she owns, or what exact laws her organization is still breaking. So what does she really know?"--

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