Book description
Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves about him: his innocence, his intelligence, his passionate immersion in the music of JS Bach. As a coder, Frank sees patterns in everything, but as his theories slide further towards the irrational, Rachel becomes…
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Nina Allan is one the UK’s greatest science fiction writers working today, and yet often, her work is barely speculative at all. Conquest concerns a missing conspiracy theorist who is obsessed with the possibility of an upcoming war against aliens. Yet, it’s structured far more like a detective story than a classic science fiction novel – though the complete SF novella buried with the book is another story.
Allan’s interspersing of academic texts further blurs the line between fact and fiction.
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