M. J. Kuhn | KILLSWITCH PROTOCOL | Presented by Sidetrack Bookshop

Schedule

Fri Jul 10 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Sidetrack Bookshop | Royal Oak, MI

Celebrate author M. J. Kuhn's newest cyberpunk novel, KILLSWITCH PROTOCOL.
About this Event

Sidetrack Bookshop presents author M. J. Kuhn to celebrate her new cyberpunk novel that's giving Logan's Run meets The Giver, with a dash of Cyberpunk 2077.
Date: Friday, July 10, 2026, 6:30pm - 8pm. Doors open at 6pm.

Location: Sidetrack Bookshop, 325 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, MI 48067

Tickets:

  • $26.25 - Includes one general admission seat to the event and signing line with one paperback copy of .
  • $5 - Includes one general admission seat to the event and signing line.

Additional copies of will be available for purchase at the event (while supplies last).

Parking in the Center Street Parking Garage located just north of Sidetrack Bookshop with entrances on both Washington and Center Streets is free for the first two hours and costs only 75 cents per hour thereafter, Monday through Saturday.

Please read on for more information about the event.

About Killswitch Protocol

In New Avarita, every person is born with a purpose. Once fulfilled, they are eligible for Ascent, a peaceful passing and assumed rebirth on the next plane of existence, celebrated for having left their perfect mark upon the world.

​At least, that's what the powers that be want them to believe.

When Liv Spencer's husband reaches Ascent under more than suspicious circumstances, she doesn't feel like celebrating-she wants revenge. Her path takes her deep into the neon-drenched streets of New Avarita's seedy underbelly, a world filled with black-market cybernetics, synthetic drugs, and people who see Ascent for what it truly is: a killswitch.

Liv is soon embroiled in an anarchist plot to overthrow the ruling body of New Avarita, but the further she sinks into this world, the blurrier the line between "righteous rebellion" and "terrorism" begins to grow. With hundreds of thousands of innocent lives on the line, Liv must find a way to strike back against the fascist rule of the shadowy figures controlling New Avarita without getting flagged for Ascent herself.

About M. J. Kuhn

M. J. Kuhn is a sci-fi and fantasy writer by night and a mild-mannered marketer by day. She is the internationally bestselling author of Among Thieves and Thick as Thieves and cohost of the SFF Addicts podcast and FanFiAddict Book Club. She lives in the metro Detroit area with her very spoiled cats, Evie and Thorin Oakenshield.

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Sidetrack Bookshop, 325 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, United States
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USD 6.24 to USD 28.56

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