The novel examines the question of what it is people actually want, especially when the usual baubles have all been used up. The answer seems to be renewal, but ...

Sep 1, 2015 · Read 77 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In the near future, after the collapse of society as we know it, ...

The novel is set after the events of the Seizure, in the small English town of Lewes; survivors seem to have recovered from a financial apocalypse, rather than ...

De Abaitua builds on the promise he demonstrated in The Red Men in this intellectual science fiction novel, whose ambition is matched by its execution.

“If Then is a love story, the history of a marriage, a topical meditation on the end of capitalism; best of all, it is a bone-deep, blood-sweet British ...

My memoir Self & I: A Memoir of Literary Ambition (Eye Books, 2018) was widely acclaimed, described as "a compelling reminiscence" by the Times Literary ...

Publisher's summary. After an unspecified near-future disaster, one English town survives under the protection of the surviving computer algorithms of the ...

The intriguing literary SF second novel from the author of the Clarke Award-nominated The Red Men.

Aug 23, 2017 · The prose has a wonderful lightness and simplicity at odds with its complex subject; at no point is the dense narrative difficult or obtuse.

Jun 27, 2016 · What seems to become clear is that we are in the middle of a vast ethical thought experiment, and Hector becomes increasingly central to it.