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Ray Nayler - Where the Axe is Buried, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Where the Axe is Buried

Av Ray Nayler

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All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.Nebula Award, Ray Bradbury Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist and Hugo and Locus Award winner Ray Nayler returns with a gripping technological thriller.'A fast-paced dystopian thriller' - SFX Magazine'First-rate science fiction' - Cory Doctorow'As much a novel of ideas as it is a techno-thriller . . . A more erudite and emotionally engaging Philip K Dick' - Irish TimesIn a familiar yet different Europe governed by AI, life is more efficient, objective, and peaceful. Yet all is not as it seems. Meanwhile, at Europe's eastern edge, the Federation endures under the rule of a President who has preserved his power by transferring his consciousness from body to body.As both worlds begin to crumble, Lilia, a Federation scientist, discovers a way to slip the nets of surveillance and alter the balance of power. On the run, she becomes the reluctant centre of a struggle between resistance and control. Yet the systems and people surrounding her may already be beyond redemption. Is there any way to put humanity's future back in its own hands?
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-04-01
  • Mått: 154 x 232 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 409 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: Orion Publishing Co
  • ISBN: 9781399627894
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Ray Nayler is the author of the novels Where the Axe Is Buried and The Mountain in the Sea, which won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and the novella The Tusks of Extinction, which won a Hugo Award. Born in Quebec and raised in California, Nayler lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans. He most recently served as international adviser to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University's Institute for International Science and Technology Policy. He lives in Washington, DC.

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Roll over, George Orwell: This post-apocalyptic dystopia makes Airstrip One look like a summer camp. Nayler's sophomore novel is set in a familiar future world in which totalitarian orders rule, with recognisably Putinesque touches in what's called the (né Russian) Federation, not least an autocratic ruler who's been running the show for decades . . . A richly detailed evocation of a grim future that is, sadly, absolutely believable

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