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Alex Maskill was born in Watford, and grew up both there and in Eastbourne, East Sussex. He's has just completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Leicester and now has a degree in Politics. He hopes to follow this with an MSc in Computer Science.
The Hive Construct is his first novel and won the 2013 Terry Pratchett Prize.
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. 352 pages. ex-library, spine lightly wornSituated deep in the Sahara Desert, New Cairo is a city built on technology ? ?? from the huge, life-giving solar panels that keep it functioning in a radical ly changed, resource-scarce world to the artificial implants that have become th e answer to all and any of mankind's medical problems. But it is also a divided city, dominated by a handful of omnipotent corporate dynasties.And it's when a p owerful new computer virus begins to spread through the poorest districts, shutt ing down the life-giving implants that enable so many to survive, that the city begins to slide into the anarchy of violent class struggle. Hiding out amidst th e ruins and underground resistance is Zala Ulora, a gifted hacker and fugitive f rom justice. She believes she might be able to earn her life back by tracing the virus to its source and destroying it before it destroys the city . . . or the city destroys itself.With its vivid characters, bold ideas and explosive and thr illing action, The Hive is science-fiction at its most exciting, inventive and a ccessible . Codice articolo 6009r
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