Ellen Hopper is a British scientist living on a frostbitten rig in the cold Atlantic. It is also home to the American Zone, the last surviving enclave of the United States. In reality though it is struggling, and today it is a land stalked by hunger and violence. Located in one of the few remaining temperate zones, it should have the means to support itself. Britain is one of the few fortunate countries. Now it has stopped so that one side of the world permanently faces the sun while the other is stuck in an eternal frozen night. It is 2059: forty years previously a solar catastrophe began to slow our planet's rotation. A high-concept, utterly original debut thriller which envisages a world on the edge of catastrophe, perfect for readers who loved Robert Harris' Fatherland, Station 11, and The Wall by John Lanchester.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |