She wanted a job in tech, maintenance or security but Cloud’s job placement algorithm put a spanner in the works by giving her a low level position that barely allows its workers to pause for breath during a shift. For the first time in a long time, Paxton allows himself to feel hopeful about the future, a feeling that flourishes when he meets fellow newcomer Zinnia, a picker responsible for moving goods around the warehouse. Moving into the sprawling corporate facility, he’s assigned a security role, quickly falling into the regimented, convenient rhythm of life at Cloud. His entrepreneurial dreams have been crushed and he has no other option than to seek employment at the same company that undercut his business and ruined his life. Yet Cloud is more chilling dystopia than the Earth-saving utopia it claims to be.Įx-prison guard Paxton needs a job.
Helmed by billionaire Gibson Wells, Cloud offers people a live-work environment that promises a better life.
Violence, poverty, unemployment and climate change have ravaged society and the country is dominated by an online retail giant called Cloud. America has succumbed to mass consumerism. Rob Hart’s first standalone novel The Warehouse is a scarily plausible thriller set in a technologically advanced near-future.
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