Nova Swing

Years after Ed Chianese's fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted--and, even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun to fall to Earth, transforming the landscapes they encounter.

Not far from Moneytown, in a neighborhood of underground clubs, body-modification chop shops, adolescent contract killers, and sexy streetwalking Monas, you'll find the Saudade Event Site: a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts--not to mention the black and white cats that come pouring out at irregular intervals.

Vic Serotonin is a "travel agent" into and out of Saudade. His latest client is a woman who's nearly as unpredictable as the site itself--and maybe just as dangerous. She wants a tour just as a troubling new class of biological artifacts are leaving the site--living algorithms that are transforming the world outside in inexplicable and unsettling ways. Shadowed by a metaphysically inclined detective determined to shut his illegal operation down, Vic must make sense of a universe rapidly veering toward a virulent and viral form of chaos...and a humanity almost lost.

Author: M. John Harrison
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 09/25/2007
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.32w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780553385014


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Best Books 07/01/2007 pg. 5
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2007 pg. 832
Publishers Weekly 08/27/2007 pg. 65
Booklist 09/01/2007 pg. 66
Romantic Times 11/01/2007 pg. 65 - Excellent
Entertainment Weekly 10/26/2007 pg. 71

About the Author
M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of eight previous novels and four collections of short stories. His fifth novel, Viriconium, was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and his sixth, Climbers, won the Boardman Tasker Award. Light was recently awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Award and shortlisted for the 2002 Arthur C. Clarke Award.