Macaque Attack (38 page)
And, lastly, I want to say a big thank you to all the people who’ve read, reviewed, discussed or recommended these books over the past three years; all those who came to readings or book launches; all those who voted for
Ack-Ack Macaque
in the 2013 BSFA Awards; and all those who’ve engaged with the monkey on Facebook or Twitter. Your response has been terrific, and this trilogy/quartet wouldn’t exist without you.
Thank you all.
Gareth L. Powell
Bristol, June 2014
In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain’s best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed ‘Ack-Ack Macaque.’ The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he’s starting to doubt everything, including his own existence.
A century later, in a world where France and Great Britain merged in the late 1950s and nuclear-powered Zeppelins circle the globe, ex-journalist Victoria Valois finds herself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the man who butchered her husband and stole her electronic soul. In Paris, after taking part in an illegal break-in at a research laboratory, the heir to the British throne goes on the run. And all the while, the doomsday clock ticks towards Armageddon...
‘Gareth Powell is going to be a major voice in SF.’
Paul Cornell
‘If you read only one space opera this year, it’s got to be
The Recollection
.’
The Guardian
on
The Recollection
‘A bid to join the big leagues, with big themes and a big setting.’
Locus
on
The Recollection
GOT A MONKEY ON YOUR BACK?
In order to hide from his unwanted fame as the Spitfire-pilot monkey who emerged from a computer game to defeat the nefarious corporation that engineered him, the charismatic and dangerous Ack-Ack Macaque is working as a pilot on a worldcircling nuclear-powered Zeppelin.
But when the cabin of one of his passengers is invaded by the passenger’s own dying doppelganger, our hirsute hero finds himself thrust into a race to save the world from an aggressive hive mind, time-hopping saboteurs, and an army of homicidal Neanderthal assassins!
‘Fizzes with wild ideas... A ripping yarn about murder, mayhem and monkeys’
Philip Reeve, author of
Mortal Engines
, on
Ack-Ack Macaque
‘Powell primes an explosive narrative with brilliant cliffhangers’
The Guardian
on
Ack-Ack Macaque
‘Gareth Powell is going to be a major voice in SF’
Paul Cornell
When his brother disappears into a bizarre gateway on a London Underground escalator, failed artist Ed Rico and his brother’s wife Alice have to put aside their feelings for each other to go and find him. Their quest through the ‘arches’ will send them hurtling through time, to new and terrifying alien worlds.
Four hundred years in the future, Katherine Abdulov must travel to a remote planet in order to regain the trust of her influential family. The only person standing in her way is her former lover, Victor Luciano, the ruthless employee of a rival trading firm. Hard choices lie ahead as lives and centuries clash and, in the unforgiving depths of space, an ancient evil stirs...
Gareth L. Powell’s epic new science-fiction novel delivers a story of galaxy-spanning scope by a writer of astounding vision.
‘Utterly Impossible to put down.’
- Colin Harvey, author of
Winter Song
‘Just the way SF should work.’
- Warren Ellis on
The Last Reef