Summary
The Photurians - a hivemind of sentient AIs and machines - were awakened by humanity as part of a complex political trap. But they broke free, evolved, and now the human race is almost finished. Once we spanned dozens of star systems; now only four remain, and Earth is being evacuated.
But the Photes can infect us, and among the thousands rescued from our home world may be enemy agents. Tiny colonies struggle to house the displaced. Our warships are failing. The end of humanity has co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473206151 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473206154 |
| Author: | Alex Lamb |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 133mm x 35mm |
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Rewarding and with a dash of interstellar politics that echo our own reality and would not be amiss in contemporary spy thrillers.
Lamb shares Hamilton’s ability to sustain a breakneck narrative where you always want to rush ahead and see what happens next. hugely promising - SFX
Roboteer hits the ground running…Lamb handles the politics without resorting to info dumps and in Will has created a sympathetic and well-rounded hero - The GuardianLamb’s got so many ideas that they almost spill off the pages, and telling the story from both sides is a smart way of balancing the argument - Sci-Fi NowAlex Lamb has crafted a terrific debut novel. If the subsequent volumes are as good as this one then Lamb will surely be prominent in many an SF fan’s bookcase - Starburst MagazineAbout The Author
Alex Lamb
Alexander Lamb splits his time between writing science fiction, software engineering, teaching improvised theater, running business communication skills workshops, and conducting complex systems research.
He currently lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Genevieve Graves, an astrophysicist, and their three month old son.
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