The Hammond Conjecture: Alternate realities collide in a witty sci-fi technothriller (The Pentacle Papers, Band 1) - Softcover

Reed, M B

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798374601312

Verlag: Independently published, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

The Hammond Conjecture is an alternative history technothriller which explores themes of memory, identity and historical narrative. It is also a lot of fun.

Are you sure you know who you are? If your memories disappeared and were replaced with someone else's, would you still be you? And what if those memories were not just from another person - but of a different world?

London 1982. Regaining consciousness in an isolation ward of catatonic patients, glimpsing the outside world only through a television news bulletin, that is the dilemma facing Hugh Hammond.

Gradually Hugh's memories return – of his life as an MI6 officer a decade earlier. But in a world where Britain is a hidebound society locked in a lonely Cold War against fascist-dominated Europe.

Are his memories false: delusions, or implanted as part of a mind-control experiment? Or was the television news fake – and if so, why? And what is the role of Carlton, the shadowy Intelligence officer who delivered him to the hospital?
Hugh types out his recollections: an adventure which takes him from an opium den in Limehouse, via a hippie encampment in British-occupied North France, to a State Reception for the Deputy Führer in the Durbar Court in Whitehall, and a Le Carré-style climax in the divided city of Paris.

Meanwhile in the hospital Hugh struggles to understand his predicament – and to escape from it. But escape only leads him into greater danger…

“Very well thought-out … Reminds me of Michael Moorcock’s earlier novels.” – Gary Gibson, leading British sci-fi writer.

Quotes from Goodreads reviews of Conjecture:

"A superbly crafted tale! This was a real joy to read! So well written, all though a little gritty at times, great but scary ideas, well rounded characters."

"The setting and concepts put me in mind of Moorcock's Cornelius Chronicles, although Hammond would have been more at home in The Chinese Agent instead."

"It is an intriguing mystery tale, exploring a phenomenon that could just be possible, if you accept the premise that unfolds in the story. It is well-written and, after the initial opening, gathers pace and kept me reading."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798374601312
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 387
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