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When contact was lost with the colony on the planet Dirangesept the Far Warriors were sent to rescue them. Sitting in orbit above the planet controlling their autoid fighting machines by remote psi links, they thought they were invulnerable to whatever had killed the colonists. They were wrong. As hundred upon hundred of the autoids wee destroyed by what appeared to be fabulous mythological beasts the mental agony suffered by the warriors tipped their minds over the edge. And now, years later in a Britain scarred by freak geological collapses and minor volcanic eruptions, with a shadowy populations seeking escape from their grim lives via a contagious addiction to VR games, someone is killing the surviving Far Warriors. Reckless Sleep is a supremely assured and visionary SF debut. London in the far future assumes an almost biblical air as ash from volcanic eruptions forms drifts in the streets and villages disappear overnight into fresh fault lines. There is also a superb exam ination of the true dilemmas presented by VR. Combining the confident vision of Ken Macleod, the paranoia driven plotting of Philip K. Dick and a wholely original take on the SF standard of Virtual Reality this is a remarkable novel.
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SALES POINTS Part of the boom in homegrown SF talent Great reviews in the trade edition Roger Levy has already made inroads into the SF scene Ideas, and rigorous prose style combined 'A fast moving, streetwise, intensely paranoid SF thriller' David Langford
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- PublisherVictor Gollancz Limited
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0575068981
- ISBN 13 9780575068988
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432
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Octavo, boards. First edition. Printed publisher's card signed by Levy laid in. The author's first novel. The "Reckless Sleep sequence, comprising RECKLESS SLEEP (2000) and DARK HEAVENS (2003), depicts a deeply depressed far near future UK dystopia in a state of imminent collapse whose population escapes all this, plus a succession of natural disasters, via virtual reality constructs that are themselves, it seems, poisonous; in the second volume, the picture darkens through the dubious promise on the part of the untrustworthy authorities of a literal escape with the aid of assisted suicide." - John Clute, SFE (online). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#154236). Seller Inventory # 154236
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