Synopsis
|
Devastated
by her husband's
death, Earth-based
biologist Yashiko
Sunadomari
journeys to the
paradise world of
Fulgar to see her
estranged son in
the hope of
bridging the gulf
between them.
But Tetsuo is
in trouble.
His expertise in
mu-space tech and
family links with
the mysterious
Pilots have
ensured his
survival. So
far. Now
he's in way over
his head -
unwittingly caught
up in a conspiracy
of illegal
tech-trafficking
and corruption,
and in the
sinister
machinations of
one of Fulgar's
ruling elite: the
charismatic
Luculentus, Rafael
Garcia de la
Vega. When
his home is
attacked, Tetsuo
flees to the
planet's
unterraformed
wastes, home to
society's outcasts
and
eco-terrorists.
So Yoshiko
arrives on Fulgar
to discover Tetsuo
gone ... and
wanted for
murder. Ill
at ease in this
strange,
stratified new
world seething
with social and
political unrest
but desperate to
find her son and
clear his name,
she embarks on a
course of action
that will bring
her face to face
with the awesome,
malevolent mind of
Rafael ... |
Review
|
'In To
Hold Infinity,
John Meaney has
achieved a cold
fusion of
post-cyberpunk
tech noir with the
expansive dreams
of classic science
fiction. The
result is dark,
complex and
glitters with
brilliant
strangeness.
To Hold
Infinity held
me from the
bullet-spray prose
of its
opening. I
was immersed in
John Meaney's
fantastic yet
plausible future -
a future
transformed by
technology, a
future where even
death isn't the
end of the
adventure, a
future where the
cool philosophies
of the east have
merged with
western
science. But
the whole is
cemented together
by the complex but
very human bond
between a mother
and her son.
'John Meaney
has rewired
science
fiction.
Everything is
different now'
Stephen Baxter |
