Ghost Species :The environmental thriller longlisted for the BSFA Best Novel Award
Ghost Species :The environmental thriller longlisted for the BSFA Best Novel Award
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Published:
16 February, 2021
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Description
In an intimate portrayal of high-concept big ideas, can we engineer ourselves out of a problem of our own making?
Set against the backdrop of rapidly escalating climate catastrophe, scientists Kate Larkin and Jay Gunesekera are recruited by tech billionaire and mogul Davis Hucken to the forests of Tasmania, Australia. His Foundation's mission is not only to halt the effects of climate change, but to re-engineer and reverse the damage through the ambitious process of reviving species lost to the earth over time, including a clandestine ambition to resurrect the Neanderthals. When Eve, the first child, is born and grows up in a world crumbling around her, questions arise that she and Kate must face. Is she human or not, real or unnatural, and is she the ghost species or are we?
As more and more of us are waking up to the truth about our climate, and our need to reverse the damage we have caused, Ghost Species is timely, poignant and reflective on what it means to be human on a personal and a global scale.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781529358100 |
| ISBN10 | 1529358108 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 206 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 196 x 22 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Ghost Species is a perceptive and timely tale about what it really means to take care of the Earth... spelling out, rather didactically, where ordinary folk will fit in the future that Elon Musk and Bill Gates built. -- Simon Ings * The Times *
Ghost Species is absorbing, sensitively written and full of heart. A landmark novel in today's environmentally ravaged world. -- Anne Charnock, author of the Arthur C. Clarke 2018 Novel Award-winning 'Dreams Before the Start of Time'
Ghost Species is a quietly devastating and immensely affecting novel.
Can't stop thinking about it. Touching.
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Author's Bio
James Bradley is an author and critic. His work includes the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and a work of non-fiction, Deep Water: The World in the Ocean. His books have won The Age Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Kathleen Mitchell Award and the FAW Literary Award, and have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction amongst others. He lives in Sydney.