Alicia Ellis’ complete Flesh and Metal: This bionic woman fiction series for the modern age pushes SO MANY buttons
Who will survive the war between man and machine?
Alicia Ellis’ Flesh and Metal series about a cyborg woman combines action movie energy with classic story ideas and mystery solving.
Alicia Ellis writes sci-fi, contemporary, and fantasy mysteries. She is the author of the sci-fi action mysteries “Girl of Flesh and Metal,” the urban fantasy Blood Spells and the “Gray Girls” mystery. Ellis told the GIRL MEETS MONSTER site that her love for SF and Fantasy came because her father raised her on Star Trek and Star Wars.
“I love science fiction and fantasy because it’s simultaneously real and unreal,” Ellis said in the interview. “It’s different from the everyday, and thus it provides an escape. At the same time, SFF explores real-world joys and problems.”
As soon as I first saw these books online, I immediately sent her some interview questions. I hope we can share a Q&A with her soon!
In the meantime, below are the descriptions for these books—and they look a lot like the kind of stuff I totally want to add to my reading list. (Which I have done. I’m planning to buy them soon!)
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Flesh and Metal series: YA Science Fiction Mysteries
Girl of Flesh and Metal (Flesh and Metal #1)
Her arm’s AI makes her sleepwalk. Her classmates die while she sleeps. Is she a target—or the killer
Lena hates her parents’ tech company. The world worships each cutting-edge CyberCorp release, but Lena has her doubts. Machines that think for themselves? She doesn’t trust them… So when a car accident lands her with the company’s first cybernetic arm, she’s pissed.
A glitch in the arm’s artificial intelligence makes her sleepwalk. Meanwhile, children of CyberCorp employees start dying in their beds, and thanks to her unwanted nighttime strolls, Lena has no alibi.
Is she a target? A suspect? Lena literally can't sleep at night until she proves her innocence—or her guilt.
Don't miss the first self-published book ever to make the American Library Association’s LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists.
Clash of Flesh and Metal (Flesh and Metal #2)
She must obey a stranger’s orders, or the androids will attack again…
Despite Lena’s fears about the dangers of the Model One androids, CyberCorp has shipped them to customers. They work perfectly—except around Lena. When an android attacks one of her best friends, she insists the robots are fatally flawed.
Desperate to keep this situation from spiraling out of control, like it did last time, Lena casts suspicion on everyone she knows. This time, she won't trust anyone. When she gets a threatening note from someone claiming to be controlling the androids, she'll obey—but only to stall for time.
Can she find whoever's responsible, before someone else she loves dies?
War of Flesh and Metal (Flesh and Metal #3)
With no way out, she’ll face a pissed-off artificial intelligence and two killers…
Lena’s ready to put it all behind her. She helped catch two killers who used CyberCorp to commit murder, and starting right now, she vows never to set foot inside the company’s headquarters again. But when those killers show up at CyberCorp Tower to confess everything they’ve hidden, Lena can’t resist seeing justice done.
As she steels herself to confront them again, decommissioned androids go berserk inside the headquarters, forcing a lockdown. Lena is trapped inside not only with the killers she brought down—but also with the dangerous technologies she fears.
Can Lena escape, or will she die inside CyberCorp Tower?
Don't miss the thrilling conclusion to the YA science fiction Flesh and Metal trilogy.
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Dreams of Flesh and Metal (Flesh and Metal #0)
It’s just a game. Right?
Virtual reality isn’t reality. So even though Lena didn't expect to have fun, she went along with the VR game anyway. But its artificial intelligence knows everything about her—who she is, how much money her parents have, her greatest fears.
When the line blurs between the nightmare and what's real, Lena must fight for her life to escape.
This standalone novelette is a fun thrill ride set before the Flesh and Metal trilogy.
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