Echo Cycle (Paperback)

Patrick Edwards

ISBN 10: 1785658816 / ISBN 13: 9781785658815

Editore: Titan Books Ltd, London, 2020

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Paperback. The more things change, the more they stay the same.One day, a boy fell down a hole in time and banged his head. When he woke up he met the Emperor Nero, who promptly killed himself. 2070. A dozen English public schoolboys on a school trip to Rome in a prosperous and technologically advanced Europe worlds away from a post-Brexit Britain marred by food shortages, poverty and a totalitarian state. Outsider Miliband Monk is captivated by the gleaming metropolis, and desperate to stay out of the way of his tormentors, who bully him for his sexuality in ultra-conservative Britain, and longs for what he sees as the liberal utopia of modern Europe. When a life-changing shock leads him to pound a bullying classmate and dramatically injure him, and Monk flees into the city, and vanishes completely. Twenty-five years later, Monk's best friend Banks returns to Rome part of a rare diplomatic mission to the continent, and meets a wild-haired vagrant whom he realises is a much aged, haggard Monk, who claims he has been in ancient Rome for all these years, living under the Caesars. His emergence sparks a conflict in the tinderbox of modern diplomatic relations, whose mysterious origins hark back to the ancient world itself. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Echo Cycle (Paperback)
• Editore: Titan Books Ltd, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1785658816
• ISBN 13: 9781785658815
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Gladiator meets 1984 in this near-future thriller featuring timeslips, ancient magic and a disturbingly plausible dystopian Britain...

68 CE

Fleeing disaster, young Winston Monk wakes to find himself trapped in the past, imprisoned by the mad Emperor Nero. The Roman civilization he idolized is anything but civilized, and his escape from a barbaric home has led him somewhere far more dangerous.

2070 CE

As the European Union crumbled, Britain closed its borders, believing they were stronger alone. After decades of hardship, British envoy Lindon Banks joins a diplomatic team to rebuild bridges with the hypermodern European Confederacy. But in Rome, Banks discovers his childhood friend who disappeared without a trace. Monk appears to have spent the last two decades living rough, but he tells a different story: a tale of Caesars, slavery and something altogether more sinister.

Monk's mysterious emergence sparks the tinderbox of diplomatic relations between Britain and the Confederacy, controlled by shadowy players with links back to the ancient world itself...

Informazioni sull?autore

Patrick Edwards lives in Bristol, U.K. with his family and has never grown out of his fascination with the future. He spent his childhood in France, India and Indonesia and studied French at Bristol University, which included a year in a garret studio in Paris writing moody stories when he should have been working. In 2015 he graduated from Bath Spa University's Creative Writing MA and his first novel, Ruin's Wake, was published in 2019. Ruin's Wake is a finalist in the Best Novel category of the Prometheus Awards.