Nova Swing A Novel
, by HARRISON, M. JOHNNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780553590869 | 0553590863
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/30/2008
Set in the unique world first featured in the award-winningLight,here is a story of love, murder, and intergalactic noir on the razor's edge of the imagination, as envisioned by the incomparable M. John Harrison. 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. Vic Serotonin is an illegal "travel agent" into and out of Saudade. His latest client is a woman as unpredictable as the site itselfand maybe as dangerous. She wants a tour inside Saudade just as a troubling new class of biological artifacts have started leavingliving algorithms that are 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 artifact, Vic must make one final trip as the universe around him rapidly veers toward viral chaos. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award Finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award