Summary
Summerland: Where Death is Just the Beginning
An awe-inspiring account of the afterlife and what happens when it spills over into the world of the living. The new novel from the most exciting new voice in the genre.
Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning.
In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerla…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473203297 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473203295 |
| Author: | Hannu Rajaniemi |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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One of SF’s leading lights.
Calls to mind John Le Carre … clever, subtle and … has a rich emotional centre - SFX
He’s switched subgenres while retaining his trademark conceptual high jinks and impressive world-building… an impressive plot reminiscent of John le Carre. - GuardianA jaw-dropping, knowing, hyperintelligent yarn - LOCUSAn excellent slice of genre-bending fiction that thrills and intrigues in equal measure. - SciFiNowI burned through it in two days. Great book: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spook.Summerland: As if Alfred Hitchcock had made a movie with HP Lovecraft … A vision so original it deserves its own subgenre. And all worked out with the diamond-hard logic of a great SF writer. After Summerland, the thriller has a new geometryAbout The Author
Hannu Rajaniemi
Hannu Rajaniemi was born in Finland. At the age of eight he approached the European Space Agency with a fusion-powered spaceship design, which was received with a polite “thank you” note. Hannu studied mathematics and theoretical physics at University of Oulu and Cambridge and holds a PhD in string theory from the University of Edinburgh. He co-founded a mathematics consultancy whose clients included UK Ministry of Defence and the European Space Agency.
Hannu is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief (winner of 2012 Tahtivaeltaja Award for the best science fiction novel published in Finland and translated into more than 20 languages). His most recent book is Summerland (June 2018), an alternate history spy thriller in a world where the afterlife is real. His other works include Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction, a short story collection.
Hannu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-founder and CEO of HelixNano, a venture- and Y Combinator backed biotech startup.
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