Loss Protocol

Paul McAuley’s mastery of prose has created a future world of eerie believability. Loss Protocol is a beautiful story of intrigue and mystery featuring characters that resonate with all of us * Peter F. Hamilton, author of EXODUS: THE ARCHIMEDES ENGINE *Loss Protocol is Paul McAuley on absolute top form - a vision of near future England with a gripping thriller/mystery and profound thoughts about our dreams of landscape and possibility * Kim Newman, author of MODEL ACTRESS WHATEVER *So far this is the best novel I’ve read this year. Deceptively straightforward in its telling, and in the understated but expert delineation of its climate-change future, it slowly, surely builds a superb waking-dreaming narrative of the magnificent strangeness of existence * Adam Roberts, author of LAKE OF DARKNESS *Thrillingly paced, packed with big ideas and deeply, profoundly humane, Loss Protocol is McAuley at his dazzling best * James Bradley, author of LANDFALL *Astonishing, in the quiet way only McAuley manages. A deep dive, through loss of species, places, and cultural coherence into deep myth, and the reclaiming of the public, the personal, and the deeply private * Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of ARCTIC SUN *No one writes more authentic and engaging climate fictions than Paul McAuley - scientifically sharp, wondrously magical and intensely human all at the same time. Set in a vividly realized near future that is also a brilliantly depicted window into deep time, Loss Protocol raises the bar with the story of a world in the process of slowly rewilding, and people not far from us finding the path to renewal * Christopher Brown, author of TROPIC OF KANSAS and A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS *Beautifully written, blending close attention to the natural world with hallucinogenic dreams and a mind-boggling premise, this is an eco-thriller like no other from one of Britain’s best SF writers * The Guardian *Surely some of the best speculative nature writing - which is to say nature writing about an ecosystem that does not exist - yet published * Locus *

Born in Gloucestershire, Paul McAuley has a Ph.D in Botany and worked as a researcher and lecturer in various universities, including Oxford, St Andrews and the University of California, Los Angeles. His first novel won the Philip K Dick Award; his fifth the Arthur C. Clarke and John. W. Campbell Awards. His novels and stories have also won the British Fantasy, Sidewise and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. Although he lives in London, he spends as much time as possible getting lost in the woods.

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