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- ISBN 9781473234666
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 128 x 194mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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"profound skill as a writer ... Jones does a remarkable job" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
"Would recommend for those looking for something a little different. If this is like your usual read, are you ok?" - Goodreads Reviewer
The world is saved. The world is ending. Both of these things are true.
The UK's Conservative government is responsible for increased wealth disparity, an ever-more militant police state, and rising civil discontent.
Kairos - a pharmaceutical breakthrough - allows the user not just to see a different world but shape it.
As disparate groups of people try to bend the world to their will, reality itself reaches breaking point. With society so divided, is there any way to pull the world back together?
Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for BOLD AS LOVE; CASTLES MADE OF SAND was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. She is the previous winner of the James Tiptree Memorial Award and two World Fantasy Awards; four of her previous books have been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.She has also won the Pilgrim Award, for lifetime achievement in SF scholarship; the BSFA Short Fiction Award, for 'La Cenerentola'; and, as Ann Halam, the Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society, for The Fear Man.
