Needless to say the mechanics of said FTL travel basically got very complicated and ended up being the actual core concept of the book. (For other news, you may also want to look out for:Ī new space opera trilogy! - This is coming out in the UK from Pan Macmillan and in the US from Orbit (as with Children and Doors) from 2021 onwards and represents me finally giving in to my desire for people to go from place to place in space at relativistically impossible speeds. Plenty of other invertebrates to take up the slack, however. And yes, there are spiders, though not centre stage.
It frankly has more of the sort of evolutionary science weirdness that marks Children of Time than anything else I've written. I had inordinate fun writing this book, which has been on the factory floor being planned out and assembled for a long old time - the first seeds were planted back in 2014 at Loncon, springing out of their excellent series of panels on spec evo. I somehow scored a review in the New Scientist here. It has espionage and spy stuff, crytozoology, higher physics and speculative evolution by the spade-full. What the hell is the Doors of Eden? It's a standalone SF set partially in the real world in the modern day, and partially on a whole load of other parallel earths where things have gone very differently. For those in the States, the US release is September. Waterstones link here, Forbidden Planet link here, and Amazon here. Forgive the long pause, as the bear said, but in my defence, I've been writing.Īnyway, I'm delighted to confirm that my new novel, The Doors of Eden is out very soon, which is to say around 20 th August.
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