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BuyMort: Grand Opening
How I Became the Accidental Warlord of Arizona
Shopocalypse Saga · Book 1 · 2022
Audiobook available · 16 hr 5 min
Tyson Dawes has a caretaking job at an Arizona campground, very little money and no wish to change the world. BuyMort changes it for him. A retail monopoly spanning multiple universes arrives on Earth, and alien entrepreneurs begin selling whatever the system has not marked as private property.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Because BuyMort doesn't care about anything except the bottom line.”Read the full description at Podium Entertainment
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What makes it funny?
The shopping interface installs itself in minds, including animals' minds. Thinking about a purchase or pointing at something saleable can open a transaction. A civilization-wide catastrophe therefore comes with the persistent convenience of being able to shop through it.
The comedy at work
Algorithms, advertising and service fees become instruments of conquest. The details are familiar from online shopping, but BuyMort extends them across every part of life. A character with almost no money has to confront a company that controls the whole market.
Try this if…
The central figure is a flawed slacker pushed into defending the people around him. Readers who enjoy commercial language used in grotesque circumstances may find plenty in this invasion to recognize from ordinary shopping.
Good to know
The book includes plentiful profanity and fantasy violence, follows a single viewpoint and has no harem. Its interface centers on buying and selling rather than conventional character statistics.
A few distinguishing details
- An Arizona campground caught in a multiversal shopping invasion
- A storefront installed directly in human and animal minds
- Survival governed by a monopoly's sales algorithms
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