Julian Gough
Connect
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'Instantly convincing . . .It will subtly change the way you see the world' Sunday TimesHow far would you go, to protect someone you love?Would you kill a man?Would you destroy the world?Biologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research might have on the world. And of the impact the world might have on her painfully awkward, home-schooled, ever-growing teenage son, Colt.When Colt secretly sends his mother's research paper to a biotech conference in New York, and the conference is closed down, Naomi's worst fears come true. Colt's father crashes back into their lives, backed by the secretive security or…
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'Instantly convincing . . .It will subtly change the way you see the world' Sunday TimesHow far would you go, to protect someone you love?Would you kill a man?Would you destroy the world?Biologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research might have on the world. And of the impact the world might have on her painfully awkward, home-schooled, ever-growing teenage son, Colt.When Colt secretly sends his mother's research paper to a biotech conference in New York, and the conference is closed down, Naomi's worst fears come true. Colt's father crashes back into their lives, backed by the secretive security organization he heads. The US government wants Naomi's research . . . and Colt.'Ingeniously twisting. Gough has written a hyperactive, adrenaline-junkie dystopian thriller that deserves to be made into a belter of a film franchise' The Times'A hyper-digital thriller . . . a story of family dysfunction plugged into larger questions about reality, evolution and the West's self-definition as the good guys ' Observer 'A dazzling technothriller . . . Propulsive and engrossing.' Guardian
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-0985-1
- EAN: 9781509809851
- Produktnummer: 29320948
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D3.5 cm 347 g
- Gewicht: 347
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Julian Gough is the author of three comic novels, the literary techno thriller, Connect, and was formerly the lead singer of the underground literary band Toasted Heretic. He won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize in 2008 and 2012. In 2011 he wrote the ending to Minecraft, Time magazine's computer game of the year.Praise for Julian Gough:'Julian Gough is a wonderful writer' Sebastian Barry'An outstanding talent' Observer'Thoroughly entertaining' New York Times (Juno & Juliet)'Extremely original and surprising' Sunday Independent (Jude)'Gough makes it look easy, with an instinctive sense of timing, and a razor sharp and subversive intellect' Sunday Tribune (Jude)
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