Europe at Midnight
The award-winning alternative-reality espionage series continues...
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Published:5th Nov '15
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'John le Carré meets Christopher Priest' continues in the award-winning espionage thriller series
New nations spring up in Europe every week. For an intelligence officer like Jim, it’s a nightmare. But things are about to get worse, as a stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man may hold the key to unlocking Europe’s most jealously-guarded secret...* FINALIST FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE, BSFA AND JOHN W. CAMPBELL MEMORIAL AWARDS * 'Seemingly effortless literary flair' - Guardian 'High-powered fiction of the cleverest sort' - LA Review of Books 'Darkly entertaining and disturbingly timely' - Locus 'Funny, fantastical, readable and remarkable' - Reactor IN A FRACTURED EUROPE, NEW NATIONS ARE SPRINGING UP EVERYWHERE, SOME LITERALLY OVERNIGHT For an intelligence officer like Jim, it's a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England's interests. It's hard to keep on top of it all. But things are about to get worse for Jim. A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man has come who may hold the key to unlocking Europe's most jealously-guarded secret...
With seemingly effortless literary flair, Hutchinson reveals how the stories intersect in a complex, unsettling allegory of political manoeuvring, subterfuge and statecraft * Guardian *
Pitch-perfect, bursting with the same charisma and intricate world-building as its predecessor... Europe at Midnight is high-powered fiction of the cleverest sort * LA Review of Books *
Hutchinson writes wonderfully, his prose animated not just by a keen eye for character, but by a blackly witty sense of humor, qualities that make Europe at Midnight both darkly entertaining and disturbingly timely * Locus *
As rich and as relevant as its predecessor... Funny, fantastical, readable and remarkable * Reactor *
Mind expanding, accessible yet deeply layered fiction that matches anything those Pulitzer, MAN Booker or Hugo Award winners could offer * SF Book *
I don't think I can really convey in this review how absolutely, enthrallingly brilliant this book is * SF Crow’s Nest *
Entertaining, fresh, snappy, imaginative, gritty * Worlds Without End *
Moves from a science fiction of social philosophies to a science fiction in which abstract philosophy is played out as real * SFFWorld *
Challenges, entertains and moves me in such a way that anything else I read this year is going to have to be something special to match up to * Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together *
The questions raised by Europe at Midnight are of vital importance to a continent at a crossroads * Strange Horizons *
- Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016
ISBN: 9781781083987
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304 pages
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