LAURA BYNUM was born in Springfield, Illinois (Land of Lincoln) in 1968. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois, and earned an MA in Mass Media and Interpersonal Communications from Eastern Illinois University. She has extensive experience in marketing, corporate training and public relations. In 2006 she attended the Maui Writer's Conference and was awarded its top prize--the Rupert Hughes Prose Award--for an early draft of VERACITY. She is currently at work on a second novel. She lives with her husband and three daughters in Virginia.
"A remarkable book, thought-provoking, horrifying, and yet
hopeful." -- Elizabeth Moon, "New York Times" bestselling author of
"The Speed of Dark"
"A thrilling debut -- part "The Handmaid's Tale, " part "Fahrenheit
451" -- that's as suspenseful as it is thought-provoking. I was
hooked from the very first page." -- Larry Beinhart, Edgar
Award-winning author of "Wag the Dog"
"An utterly absorbing and impressive novel of technology, control,
and pseudo-morality gone mad. Too close for comfort." -- Greg Bear,
"New York Times" bestselling author
"Move over, George Orwell. Laura Bynum's "Veracity" reads like a
modern-day "1984" -- disturbing and coercive. This book is so
spooky it gets under your skin and lives there, smoldering with
fear, mistrust, and wild adventure." -- Jeff Carlson, international
bestselling author of "Plague Zone"
In this emotionally gripping first novel, Harper Adams, a Monitor capable of reading people's emotions, identifies enemies of the Confederation of the Willing, a nasty dystopian state reminiscent of 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale. Like everyone else, she has a "slate" implanted in her neck, primed to execute her if she utters one of the many words that have been outlawed or "Red-Listed" by the government. Pushed to revolt when her daughter's name, Veracity, is Red-Listed, Harper is recruited by the resistance and becomes their secret weapon. Bynum makes her protagonist's emotional turmoil painfully believable and creates a number of other interesting and thorny characters, but her plot is occasionally incoherent. Though the cartoonishly powerful Confederacy is never entirely convincing as a workable totalitarian state, its opponents also seem too quixotic and undermanned to fight it as successfully as they do. (Jan.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
"A remarkable book, thought-provoking, horrifying, and yet
hopeful." -- Elizabeth Moon, "New York Times" bestselling author of
"The Speed of Dark"
"A thrilling debut -- part "The Handmaid's Tale, " part "Fahrenheit
451" -- that's as suspenseful as it is thought-provoking. I was
hooked from the very first page." -- Larry Beinhart, Edgar
Award-winning author of "Wag the Dog"
"An utterly absorbing and impressive novel of technology, control,
and pseudo-morality gone mad. Too close for comfort." -- Greg Bear,
"New York Times" bestselling author
"Move over, George Orwell. Laura Bynum's "Veracity" reads like a
modern-day "1984" -- disturbing and coercive. This book is so
spooky it gets under your skin and lives there, smoldering with
fear, mistrust, and wild adventure." -- Jeff Carlson, international
bestselling author of "Plague Zone"
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