N A Rossi

ALLi Author Member

Location: United Kingdom (the)

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Literary Fiction, General Fiction

Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture

N. A. (Nicola) Rossi has lived in London most of her life, moving there from the seaside town of Southport in the early ‘80s. After university she flirted briefly with journalism, and then began a 30-year career in communications management, eventually running international teams for big technology companies.
In 2017 she was awarded an MA in Digital Media from Goldsmiths University. That was when the trouble began. She started to write about surveillance, data ownership, consent and the potential for people to be manipulated without their knowledge.
Her debut novel, Rockstar Ending, started life as a short story, ‘One Last Gift’, which won a dystopian fiction award from the Orwell Society. The judges described it as ‘highly original, macabre and very funny’. It was published in the Journal of Orwell Studies.
Nicola is a regular blogger on technology, society and the arts. She has lectured in universities on leadership, PR, ethics and corporate social responsibility and consults on communications management. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC local radio, and written for wide range of media outlets including The Independent, Time Out, Louder Than War and Influence.
She lives in south east London with her husband and two adult children.

N A Rossi's books

Rockstar Ending

London. 2027. An ordinary woman discovers she is capable of extraordinary things.

When Lexi finds out people are being coerced into genocide by stealth, she vows to take on the sinister corporation behind the ultimate Rockstar Ending.

It’s hard to resist their invitation to a pain-free suicide with a glamorous spin, a seductive soundtrack, and a killer inheritance tax exemption. After her best friend’s mother books a one-way ticket, Lexi sets out on a rescue mission that takes her deep into the terrifying heart of the death factory.

In a turbulent political landscape, the Yuthentic movement has opened a deep rift between the generations, promoting the redistribution of wealth to younger people by all possible means. Technology is weaponised to manipulate the victims, unseen, as social media, artificial intelligence and all manner of robots are deployed to undermine humanity.

But the underground resistance is getting stronger. How can an unconventional band of unlikely heroes stop the killing – before it’s all too late?

Rockstar Ending is the first book in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian series that will get you thinking about the social and political issues that will dominate the coming decade.

If you like Black Mirror, The Handmaid’s Tale or the Blue Ant trilogy, then you’ll love this book.

For Those About to Rock

When Bowie-obsessed IT guy Bob leaves his job at the bank to work in school surveillance, he is expecting an easy life. He could not be more wrong.

They say the cameras keep the children safe. So no-one objects when their images are used to feed a revolutionary new teaching system that guarantees extraordinary results.

But when Bob meets Lexi, a teacher shaken by the tragic suicide of a teenage pupil, he begins to question whether replacing humans with corporate machines is in the children’s best interests.

For Those About to Rock is the prequel to Rockstar Ending, the definitive dystopia for the coming decade.

Through the eyes of two ordinary people who will go on to do extraordinary things, it charts the gradual rise of Yuthentic, a populist political movement, and its sinister private sector partner, as they prepare to set in motion a terrifying series of events.

If you like Black Mirror, The Handmaid’s Tale or the Blue Ant series, then you’ll love this book.

Rock On

They came to kill her best friend’s elderly mother. Now Lexi can’t rest until she has exposed the sinister corporation behind the hidden genocide.

She’s tried the politicians. The media don’t care. When she hits on a way to grab the headlines, she’s in serious danger. If they find out what she has done, Lexi and her soulmate Bob will lose everything.

The ruling party, Yuthentic, is using all possible means to siphon wealth away from old people.

While five survivors of the world’s most persuasive assisted suicide campaign fight for their freedom, the death machine that came for them in Rockstar Ending is unstoppable.

Thousands more elders are taken and terrifying plans are afoot to widen the net. How can a handful of amateur activists halt the killing?

Rock On is the second book in the chillingly plausible dystopian Rockstar Ending series, steeped in the social and political dilemmas that dominate the 2020s.

The novels blend glimmers of dark humour with acutely observed cultural references and include a playlist of the songs that run through the story.

If you are a fan of speculative fiction such as Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid’s Tale and Black Mirror you’ll love this book.

Rockaway

Freedom fighter Lexi is traumatized by the horrors she has experienced at the hands of the sinister Corporation. Yet she remains hell-bent on halting the Endings, an insidious, AI-powered killing spree aimed at the over-70s.

With troubled youth and people with disabilities next in line for extinction, Lexi and her activist friends turn up the heat. But the powerful have too much to lose. When the resistance unleashes daring new tactics to derail the genocide, they find themselves in greater danger than they ever thought possible.

Rockaway is the third book in the chillingly plausible Rockstar Ending series, steeped in the social and political dilemmas that dominate the 2020s. The novels blend glimmers of dark humor with acutely observed cultural references and include a playlist of the songs that run through the story.

If you enjoy dystopian fiction such as Black Mirror, The Handmaid’s Tale, or Nineteen Eighty-Four the Rockstar Ending series is for you.

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