COULD YOU SURVIVE THE END OF YOUR WORLD?
When your life is based on lies, how do you hunt down the truth?
Jerry Beche should be dead. Instead, he's rescued from a desolate Earth where he was the last man alive. He's then trained for the toughest conditions imaginable and placed with a crack team of specialists on an isolated island. Every one of them is a survivor, as each withstood the violent ending of their own alternate Earth. And their new specialism? To retrieve weapons and data in missions to other apocalyptic versions of our world.
But what is 'the Authority', the shadowy organization that rescued Beche and his fellow survivors? How does it access timelines to find other Earths? And why does it need these instruments of death?
As Jerry struggles to obey his new masters, he begins to distrust his new companions. A strange bunch, their motivations are less than clear, and accidents start plaguing their missions. Jerry suspects the Authority is feeding them lies, and team members are spying on him. As a dangerous situation spirals into catastrophe, is there anybody he can trust?
“"This potent, teeth-gritting SF thriller shows death and love only a shadow away from our ordinary lives."--Publishers Weekly, 10/26/2015, starred review”
One of the top SF writers active today . . . In the right hands SF can be wonderful, inventive and hugely enjoyable - and Gary Gibson is just that sort of author WalkerofWorlds.com Gibson has certainly proved himself a name to watch SFX Gibson turns the genre on its head ...He excels at depicting real-feeling destruction and the tenacity and weaknesses of survivors, along with the moral wrestling of survivor guilt. This potent, teeth-gritting SF thriller shows death and love only a shadow away from our ordinary lives Publishers Weekly (starred review) To be considered alongside the leading triumvirate of British hard SF writers: Al Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, and Neal Asher . . . a treat for all fans of intelligent space opera Guardian
Gary Gibson has worked as a graphic designer and magazine editor and began writing at the age of fourteen. He lives in Glasgow and previous novels include the Shoal series (Stealing Light, Nova War and Empire of Light) plus the stand-alone books Angel Stations, Against Gravity, Final Days and The Thousand Emperors. He's also written a stand-alone novel, Marauder, set in the Shoal series universe. His current project is a series starting with Extinction Game.
When your life is based on lies, how do you hunt down the truth? Jerry Beche should be dead. Instead, he's rescued from a desolate Earth where he was the last man alive. He's placed on a remote island with a crack team of survivors - who each saw the end of their own alternate Earth -. And they have a mission: to retrieve weapons and data from dying versions of our world. But what is 'the Authority', the shadowy organization that rescued Beche and his team? How does it access timelines to find other Earths? And why does it need instruments of death? As Jerry struggles to obey his new masters, he also begins to distrust his companions. A strange bunch, their motivations are unclear, and accidents plague their operations. As a dangerous situation spirals into catastrophe, who can he trust? 'His finest novel to date . . . a gripping mystery . . . can only increase Gibson's growing reputation' Guardian 'Gibson makes the most of his parallel universes, forging a strong plot with a few twists that fairly boggle the mind' Daily Mail 'A damn good read . . . I've simply stormed through it' Upcoming4.me
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