Grand Junction

Dantec, Maurice G.

ISBN 10: 0345499948 / ISBN 13: 9780345499943

Published by Random House Worlds, 2009

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Synopsis:

Visionary, gripping, sumptuous and tantalizing, Grande Junction is a masterwork of hip, literary science fiction.

On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later, the survivors are sunk in a new Dark Age, a grim afterworld in which the only law is the law of the jungle.
In the sprawling ruins of Grande Junction, a thriving urban community centered on an abandoned spaceport, civilization is hanging on by its fingernails. In this last fragile outpost of knowledge and reason, hope and faith, a second wave of lethal viruses is unleashed–viruses that attack human beings directly, stripping away language, thought, humanity itself.

But it is also here that a young boy, a guitar-playing prodigy named Link de Nova, discovers within himself the power to fight a malevolent entity determined to remake the world in its own bleak image. Now, as the viruses spread and enemies converge on Grande Junction, Link and his friends and protectors, Chrysler Campbell and Yuri McCoy, prepare to fight for the survival of the human race with rifles, radios, and rock ’n’ roll.

About the Author: MAURICE G. DANTEC’s first novel, La sirène rouge (Red Siren), was published in 1993 as a part of the Série noire collection. The novel won France’s 813 award for best crime novel. His second novel, Les racines du mal (The Roots of Evil), a cyberpunk novel, was awarded France’s
Prix de l’Imaginaire. Dantec is also the author of Cosmos Incorporated and Babylon Babies.

TINA KOVER is a translator who has worked on Modern Library’s edition of Georges by Alexandre Dumas.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Grand Junction
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: Original.