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Spectra
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
432 pages
ISBN: 0553587331
EAN: 9780553587333
Mass Market Paperback
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Science Fiction
In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel,
three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own
creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go
along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one
thing more mysterious than darkness.
In
contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on
the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is
seeking escape in a future that doesn’t yet exist—a
quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to
access through a breach of time and space itself. In this
future, Seria Mau Genlicher has already sacrificed her
body to merge into the systems of her starship, the White
Cat. But the “inhuman” K-ship captain has gone rogue,
pirating the galaxy while playing cat and mouse with the
authorities who made her what she is. In this future, Ed
Chianese, a drifter and adventurer, has ridden dynaflow
ships, run old alien mazes, surfed stellar envelopes.
He “went deep”—and lived to tell about it. Once crazy for
life, he’s now just a twink on New Venusport, addicted to
the bizarre alternate realities found in the tanks—and in
debt to all the wrong people.
Haunting them all
through this maze of menace and mystery is the shadowy
presence of the Shrander—and three enigmatic clues left on
the barren surface of an asteroid under an ocean of light
known as the Kefahuchi Tract: a deserted spaceship, a pair
of bone dice, and a human skeleton.
From the
Trade Paperback edition.
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