Nova Swing

Philip K. Dick Award, 2008

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780575079694

Price: £8.99

ON SALE: 14th March 2013

Genre: Crime & Mystery / Science Fiction

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“An awesomely fluent and versatile prose stylist” – INDEPENDENT

Amazing achievement … Harrison pulls off the almost impossible feat of seamlessly blending hard sci-fi, cyberpunk, noir crime … while doing what all the best literature does” – Goodreads Reviewer

Set in the unique world, first featured in the award-winning Light, here is a story of love, murder, and intergalactic noir on the razors edge of the imagination, as envisioned by the incomparable M. John Harrison.

In a neighbourhood of underground clubs, body-modification chop shops, adolescent contract killers, and sexy streetwalking Monas, you’ll find the Saudade Event – a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts.

Vic Serotonin is a travel agent, arranging illegal travel to and from Saudade. His latest client wants a tour and she is a woman as unpredictable as the site itself, and maybe just as dangerous. Coincidentally, a troubling new class of semi-biological artefacts start finding their way out of the site, transforming the real world in unsettling ways. Pursued by a detective intent on collaring him for his illegal tours, and hunted by a gangster convinced that the travel agent has infected him with a rogue artefact, Vic must make one final trip as the universe around him rapidly veers toward viral chaos