The debut novel from Gareth L Powell, Silversands will be launched at Eastercon this year, published by Pendragon Press and with a Vincent Chong, cover. Sounds like my kind of story:
Set 200 years in the future, Silversands tells the story of Avril Bradley, a reluctant astronaut thrown headlong into a world of political intrigue, espionage and subterfuge; a world where retired cops, digital ghosts and corporate assassins battle for possession of a hidden computer file that may just hold the key to humanity's future.
It will be available for pre-order from Amazon and Pendragon Press, but if you get it from Pendragon you get a couple of quid off the Amazon price. Eastecon, and therefore the launch, is in April as usual (Heathrow this year).
I first read some of Gareth L Powell's stories as part of the Friday Flash Fictioneers, his great story Ack-Ack Macaque won the Interzone Readers' Poll for best short story of 2007 and is available for podcast here, and he has a short story collection The Last Reef and Other Stories.
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