Committee Chair

Baker, Sybil

Committee Member

Hampton, Bryan Adams; Balazs, Thomas P.

Department

Dept. of English

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

This thesis contains two parts: a craft paper on interiority and four chapters of a new adult dystopian fiction novel. The craft paper focuses on interiority by conveying the protagonist’s unique perspective of the novel’s world by analyzing two dystopian fiction novels, No Coincidence by Rafał Kosik and Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan. Hive City focuses on Monica, a gun-for-hire working to live up to the dream of the brother she killed, as she accepts a job to steal medical equipment from an intermediary that she doesn’t quite trust. Things go awry though when the equipment she’s expected to steal turns out to be a young girl named Lysander. Monica’s decision to help her draws the attention of Gentech Industrials, the largest corporation in Hive City, executive board, more specifically its CEO, Gideon Almasa, as the company mobilizes to take Lysander back by any means necessary. The chapters included are the first meeting between Monica and Lysander.

Acknowledgments

So many people have made this possible. I want to first thank Sybil Baker for being the fairest and most understanding committee chair that I have had the pleasure of working with, and to Dr. Hampton and Dr. Balazs for their outstanding feedback and critiques throughout this journey. I also want to thank my mother, Melissa Ward, stepfather, Chris Ward and older brother, Chase Lambert, for always being on my side and allowing me to rant about my books, despite my mother being the only one to understand what I’m talking about. Last but certainly not least I would like to thank my three friends that would sit with me for several hours, in person or online, allowing me to vent about the many highs and lows that comes with drafting a novel.

Degree

M. A.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts.

Date

5-2025

Subject

Assassins--Fiction; Corporations in literature; Cyberpunk fiction; Dystopias in literature

Name

Kosik, Rafał, 1971-; Morgan, Richard K., 1965-

Keyword

Dystopian; Cyberpunk; Loss; Grief; Found Family

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

vii, 69 leaves

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Date Available

5-31-2026

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