In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor grow their hair, the rich affect baldness and flaunt their wealth by still eating.
But other hungers remain...
The young daughter of an affluent New York family is kidnapped. The ransom demands are refused. A year later a young women arrives at the family home claiming to be their long lost daughter. She has changed so much, she has lived on light, can anyone be sure that she has come home?
Adam Roberts' new novel is yet another amazing melding of startling ideas and beautiful prose. Set in a New York of the future it nevertheless has echoes of a Fitzgeraldesque affluence and art-deco style. It charts his further progress as one of the most important writers of his generation.
Review
"Should have won the 2009 Booker Prize." —Kim Stanley Robinson, author, Red Mars, on Yellow Blue Tibia
"Adam Roberts, intellectual enfant terrible of British SF . . . transforms what might have been a conventional war story into a series of investigations into the nature of democracy, love, war and, ultimately, revolution." —Guardian on New Model Army
"A brilliant burlesque conceit, and Roberts exploits it in bravura fashion." —Locus Magazine on Swiftly
About the Author
Adam Roberts is a novelist whose books include The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo, Gradisil, New Model Army, Salt, Swiftly, and Yellow Blue Tibia. His work has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.
Description:
In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor grow their hair, the rich affect baldness and flaunt their wealth by still eating.
But other hungers remain...
The young daughter of an affluent New York family is kidnapped. The ransom demands are refused. A year later a young women arrives at the family home claiming to be their long lost daughter. She has changed so much, she has lived on light, can anyone be sure that she has come home?
Adam Roberts' new novel is yet another amazing melding of startling ideas and beautiful prose. Set in a New York of the future it nevertheless has echoes of a Fitzgeraldesque affluence and art-deco style. It charts his further progress as one of the most important writers of his generation.
Review
"Should have won the 2009 Booker Prize." —Kim Stanley Robinson, author, Red Mars, on Yellow Blue Tibia
"Adam Roberts, intellectual enfant terrible of British SF . . . transforms what might have been a conventional war story into a series of investigations into the nature of democracy, love, war and, ultimately, revolution." —Guardian on New Model Army
"A brilliant burlesque conceit, and Roberts exploits it in bravura fashion." —Locus Magazine on Swiftly
About the Author
Adam Roberts is a novelist whose books include The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo, Gradisil, New Model Army, Salt, Swiftly, and Yellow Blue Tibia. His work has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.