About the Book
Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee 2003.
In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum
outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.
In contemporary
London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity
that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’t
yet exist – a quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to
access through a breach of time and space itself. In this future, Seria
Mau Genlicher has already sacrificed her body to merge into the systems
of her starship, the White Cat. But the “inhuman” K-ship captain has
gone rogue, pirating the galaxy while playing cat and mouse with the
authorities who made her what she is.
In this future, Ed Chianese, a
drifter and adventurer, has ridden dynaflow ships, run old alien mazes,
surfed stellar envelopes. He “went deep” – and lived to tell about it.
Once crazy for life, he’s now just a twink on New Venusport, addicted to the bizarre alternate realities found in the tanks – and in debt to all
the wrong people.
Haunting them all through this maze of menace
and mystery is the shadowy presence of the Shrander – and three enigmatic
clues left on the barren surface of an asteroid under an ocean of light
known as the Kefahuchi Tract: a deserted spaceship, a pair of bone dice, and a human skeleton.
”Light is Brilliant.” – Iain M. Banks
