2.5
Zero Bomb
By M.T HillPublisher Description
Shortlisted for Neukom Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction, from Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author M.T. Hill, Zero Bomb is a startling science fiction mystery that asks: what do we do when technology replaces our need to work?
The near future. Following the death of his daughter Martha, Remi flees the north of England for London. Here he tries to rebuild his life as a cycle courier, delivering subversive documents under the nose of an all-seeing state.
But when a driverless car attempts to run him over, Remi soon discovers that his old life will not let him move on so easily. Someone is leaving coded messages for Remi across the city, and they seem to suggest that Martha is not dead at all.
Unsure what to believe, and increasingly unable to trust his memory, Remi is slowly drawn into the web of a dangerous radical whose '70s sci-fi novel is now a manifesto for direct action against automation, technology, and England itself.
The deal? Remi can see Martha again - if he joins the cause.
The near future. Following the death of his daughter Martha, Remi flees the north of England for London. Here he tries to rebuild his life as a cycle courier, delivering subversive documents under the nose of an all-seeing state.
But when a driverless car attempts to run him over, Remi soon discovers that his old life will not let him move on so easily. Someone is leaving coded messages for Remi across the city, and they seem to suggest that Martha is not dead at all.
Unsure what to believe, and increasingly unable to trust his memory, Remi is slowly drawn into the web of a dangerous radical whose '70s sci-fi novel is now a manifesto for direct action against automation, technology, and England itself.
The deal? Remi can see Martha again - if he joins the cause.
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“The first bit of this book was very interesting and reeled me in straight off. Post-modern Britain engaged in a super surveillance state whilst also losing much of their core workforce to automation? Fascinating. However, it took a weird turn after being introduced to Rupal (which I could not read without reading ‘Rupaul’) and just went down the tubes. I understand it’s a homage to the genre, and having vacuumed up as much classic sci-fi as I possibly could during my childhood, I see the influences, but it just didn’t feel as full as it could have. I would have preferred a slow dissection of societal pressures and issues but instead got disjointed narratives and a disappointing ending.”
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About M.T Hill
M.T. Hill grew up in Tameside, Greater Manchester, and now lives on the edge of the Peak District with his wife and sons. He is the author of Zero Bomb, which was shortlisted for the Neukom Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction, The Folded Man and 2016 Philip K. Dick Award nominee Graft.
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