America City

Chris Beckett

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Atlantic Books
26 September 2018

Science fiction; Dystopia; Urban Sci-Fi

America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow-Americans from the south.

Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country in order to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single, united nation. When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right hand woman, doing battle on the whisperstream, where stories are everything and truth counts for little.

But can they bring America together - or have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?

By: Chris Beckett
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781786491541
ISBN 10: 1786491540
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 26 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chris Beckett is a former university lecturer and social worker living in Cambridge. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, 2009, for The Turing Test, the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, for Dark Eden and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award for Mother of Eden in 2015 and for Daughter of Eden in 2016.

Reviews for America City

America City is beautifully written, inventive, with a strong cast of characters... and a plot that makes the reader think, and is another great book from one of the best writers around. * Concatenation * Tells an all too believable story. * Daily Mail (Scotland) * Chris Beckett is a genius. * Eric Brown bestselling author of THE SERENE INVASION * Compelling... a grim demonstration of how one person can change history, but not control it. * SFX * Vivid and disturbing... An uneasy read that manages to feel both timely and urgent. * Guardian *