Innocent Bystanders
- ISBN-10
- 0978918983
- ISBN-13
- 9780978918989
- Series
- Innocent Bystanders
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-08
- Author
- Alexander Bryant
Description
How do you contain the expensive problem of super heroes running amok? Find a way to make money off it, of course. Welcome to a world where, alarmingly, super heroes exist, but they are being managed through the simple expedient of exploiting their egos.A standard human named Charlie Decker is agent IB86. He and his team work for The Agency, a quasi-governmental company tasked with supplying bystanders to where supers are battling in the trillion-dollar live mock-up called The City. Their job is to pose for the supers and the media, keep safe the real citizens of The City who don't know they're part of an elaborate front, and to stay alive.In the "Innocent Bystanders" short story series, super heroes' gigantic lives are vigorously promoted and broadcast by Mediatron: the fabulously successful media monopoly running most everything. These are the last days of those heady golden times when the heroes were under control, viewership was up, and everyone who mattered was getting rich.But something is happening out there. Supers have started disappearing snatched up by a new faction not associated with Brand Good or Brand Evil, a force threatening to undermine the carefully monitored habitat created by Mediatron. And it is up to Charlie Decker and his team to find out what it is.The next short story in this series, A.L.F.R.E.D.s, explores The Agency's origin story, diving in to two characters' stories from IB.
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Other editions
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- 2010-04-13
- 362 pages
- Paperback
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- 2010-03-24
- 388 pages
- Ebook
- World Bank Publications
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- 2009
- 140 pages
- Paperback
- Commonwealth Secretariat
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