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Blending Indian mythology and classic space opera, Project Hanuman is a bold new science-fiction novel from Stewart Hotston, perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The Arcology is a pan galactic utopia whose people live entirely online. Tired of paradise, Praveenthi ‘Prab’ Saal had herself printed into the physical world of Sirajah’s Reach, working as an Interlocutor – a go-between for the Arcology and the cultures it meets in flesh and blood.
One evening after a call with her family – who are pressuring her to abandon her body and rejoin the Arcology – the city stops completely. Nothing electronic works anymore. Terrified that the Arcology has just up and disappeared, she receives a call for help from a ship in dock whose pilot, Kercher, is a prisoner printed into a body to serve out his sentence in the physical world. Between them they discover it’s not just her planet, but the entire Arcology that’s gone missing. If they don’t find out what’s going on it could be the end of everyone and everything that calls the Arcology home.
Their only resource is their living ship, into which all the knowledge and culture of the Arcology has been downloaded. Asked to be a life raft for the Arcology, the ship, a frigate without a name, is dying – slowly being swallowed whole by the literal universe of information it’s been asked to carry. Prab and Kercher will need to put aside their dislike of each other and the Arcology if they’re to help their ship and save anything at all. Can they restore the possibility of hope to their lives?
“Builds on classic SF to deliver an intelligent page-turner at the cutting edge of the genre today.”
– Juliette McKenna, author of The Green Man series
“An ideas story spanning from truly quantum scale to galactic, while still told from the level of the human heart. Project Hanuman deftly opens philosophical and metaphysical questions about what it is to be embodied, to be deathless, to serve purpose.”
– Essa Hansen, author of Nophek Gloss
“Project Hanuman does that rarest of things in science fiction, it uses cutting edge ideas from technology and sociology and projects them into an original and very real feeling far future, whilst telling a very ‘human’ story. Easily one of the best science fiction novels this decade.”
– Gavin Smith, author of the Veteran series
“As wildly inventive as it is intriguing, Dragging you through a galaxy spanning story.”
– RJ Barker, author of The Boneships and The Forsaken Trilogy
“A true science fiction gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries of the genre.”
– Adrian Tchaikovsky, bestselling author of the Children of Time series
“In Project Hanuman, Stew Hotston draws upon the classic themes of great space opera, and creates something dazzlingly fresh and original. We are invited to voyage through a galaxy that is richly populated with species and intelligences, where conflict and collaboration, freedom and exile, and survival and extinction encounter each other in a story that is relentlessly paced, lavishly crafted, and always human.”
– Gautam Bhatia, author of The Sentence and Editor of Speculative Horizons
“Project Hanuman is a visionary, mind-bending space opera of electric drama and searing heart. A sharp, thoughtful exploration of what intelligence looks like beyond humanity, and what hope looks like when your universe is ending, this book is for anyone who ever loved Iain M. Banks.”
– Lorraine Wilson, author of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest
