Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
When she's in the cage--fighting in it, that is--she's called Tigress. But for everyday, she is Claudia--for clouds, so soft and elusive that not even mountains can stop them. In China, for the same reason, she was called Yinyin.
But Claudia was born without much Yin, the soft energy of the universe, and too much Yang--the hardest force. Which made her a beast. Hence the nickname, Tigress, that she brought with her to America, right before her Shifu passed. He told her that her imbalance would kill her someday. Of course that same nature caused her not to listen. To her Shifu, to her doctor boyfriend, to her friends...
Whenever Tigress had the chance, she would jump into the cage again and fight. Usually the big men had no idea what was coming at them. Until it was too late
When Claudia is invited to a high tech lab full of nerd types she despises, they ask her let them install weird little robots inside her head, so their minds can be linked to a super brain. If the connection is good, she will become the smartest fighter who ever lived. And she thinks, why not? Especially since they promise the experiment will also help her condition: Suicidal Headaches, as people called it. Incurable, until that day.
Then, robots in and...headaches gone What nobody expects however is that these connections, this super brain, will also allow Claudia to uncover an old family skill. One hidden in what she always thought to be a silly fable about a tigress, a beehive and a monkey. In China, they refer to it as The Shadow Leap. In the West, there was a much better name for it...
Teleportation.
Synopsis
My Name is Tigress and I am immortal. This is my story. When she's in the cage--fighting, that is--she's called Tigress. But for everyday, she is Claudia--for clouds, so soft and elusive that not even the mountains can stop them. In China, for the same reason, she was called Yinyin.
But, in reality, Claudia was born without much Yin--the soft energy of the universe--and too much Yang--the hardest force. Which made her a beast. Hence the nickname, Tigress, that she brought with her to America, just before her Shifu passed. He told her that her imbalance would kill her someday. Of course that same nature caused her not to listen.
Whenever Tigress had the chance, she would jump into the cage again and fight. Usually the big men had no idea what was coming at them. Until it was too late
When Claudia is invited to a high tech lab full of nerd types she despises, they ask her to let them install weird little robots inside her head, so her mind can be linked to a super brain. It's the ultimate AI experiment. If the connection is good, she will become the smartest fighter who ever lived. And she thinks, why not? Especially since they promise the experiment will also help her condition--Suicidal Headaches, as she called it. Incurable, until that day.
Then, robots in and...headaches gone What nobody expects however is that these connections, this super brain, will allow Claudia to uncover an old family skill. One hidden in what she always thought to be a silly fable about a tigress, a beehive and a monkey. In China, they refer to it as The Shadow Leap. In the West, there was a much better name for it...Teleportation.
Synopsis
From Emmy-winner, Brazilian best-seller PJ Caldas, comes a story about immortality, martial arts and AI that will make you change the way you look at life, science, and the crazy times we are living in. My Name is Tigress and I am immortal. This is my story.
Yinyin, called Tigress, was raised in the sacred mountains of Wudang, where her life was about Tai Chi, the Dao, and trying to balance her yang with yin. Artificial intelligence and neuroscience were things she'd never even heard of. But then her overpowering yang sets her on a course to the Bay Area to become a professional fighter.
For as long as she could remember, Yinyin had been told she was poised to become part of something big, but what "big" turned out to be was beyond her imagining: a scientific experiment that would allow her to connect her brain to a thing they called "Brainternet" and become unbeatable. Bonus: the suicidal headaches that had plagued her all her life would cease.
But nothing comes without a price, and this connection would give others access to family secrets Yinyin has sworn to protect. Secrets that, at large and in the wrong hands, could be a very dangerous thing.
Fans of the legendary cyberpunk novels and gritty sci-fi thrillers of William Gibson and Stieg Larsson will be captivated by this new techno-thriller--a fast-paced blend of action, neuroscience, spirituality and martial arts.
"Unpredictable, disorienting and wonderfully absorbing...a book you can't stop reading." -- Monica Rector, professor emeritus of Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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*American Book Fest Best Book Award Finalist -- best in "New Fiction" and "Science Fiction" From Emmy-winner, Brazilian best-seller PJ Caldas, comes a story about immortality, martial arts and AI that will make you change the way you look at life, science, and the crazy times we are living in.
My Name is Tigress and I am immortal. This is my story.
Embark on a mind-bending journey with Tigress as she navigates the confusing jumps of conscience that throw her between tender moments of her childhood practicing Tai Chi in China, the most violent cage fights in California, and a secret lab where scientists experiment with her brain. Dive into the chaotic blend of ancient traditions and cutting-edge technology in this exhilarating and thought-provoking techno-thriller that critics are calling "a triumph of fiction writing."
Fans of the legendary cyberpunk novels and gritty sci-fi thrillers of William Gibson and Stieg Larsson will be captivated by this new techno-thriller--a fast-paced blend of action, neuroscience, spirituality and martial arts.
"A genre-bending masterpiece" --Booktrib
"Michael Crichton meets Bruce Lee" --News USA
"A thought-provoking and action-packed novel that seamlessly weaves together ancient traditions and cutting-edge technology." --ReadersFavorite.com
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Winner of the Pencraft Book Award for Science Fiction
, br>*American Book Fest Best Book Award Finalist -- best in "New Fiction" and "Science Fiction" From Emmy-winner, Brazilian best-seller PJ Caldas, comes a story about immortality, martial arts and AI that will make you change the way you look at life, science, and the crazy times we are living in.
My Name is Tigress and I am immortal. This is my story.
Embark on a mind-bending journey with Tigress as she navigates the confusing jumps of conscience that throw her between tender moments of her childhood practicing Tai Chi in China, the most violent cage fights in California, and a secret lab where scientists experiment with her brain. Dive into the chaotic blend of ancient traditions and cutting-edge technology in this exhilarating and thought-provoking techno-thriller that critics are calling "a triumph of fiction writing."
Fans of the legendary cyberpunk novels and gritty sci-fi thrillers of William Gibson and Stieg Larsson will be captivated by this new techno-thriller--a fast-paced blend of action, neuroscience, spirituality and martial arts.
"A genre-bending masterpiece" --Booktrib
"Michael Crichton meets Bruce Lee" --News USA
"It's like being in the octagon." --Amanda Nunes, UFC double champion
"A thought-provoking and action-packed novel that seamlessly weaves together ancient traditions and cutting-edge technology." --ReadersFavorite.com