Sci-fi

Headlong

by Simon Ings
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Surgically connected to their swarm of mechanical workers, architects Christopher and Joanne Yale were turning the moon into a paradise. Now, without warning, their machines have pulled the plug. Christopher Yale is drowning in a sea of sensory deprivation and bootleg medicine. Joanne is dead, and neither the police nor their friends have any explanation. But Yale knows she was plugging pirated hardware into her head, to fight the same condition he has - Epistemic Appetite Imbalance. Confronting his loss and his new, empty-headed world, Yale seeks out the truth of Joanne's death, all the while being drawn into a new, colder London which has no place for the Moon's failures. He hasn't got much time. The police are after him, so are his wife's killers—and so is the condition which is slowly draining his life of meaning...

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First published
1999
Pages
282
Reading time
About 6 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Gollancz
ISBN
9780575131125
Series
Standalone

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