Après sept ans de Guerre Logicielle entre les intelligences artificielles rebelles de la Totalité et l'humanité - dirigée par les dieux du Panthéon, des consortiums qui se manifestent très rarement à leurs adorateurs -, la Terre n'est plus qu'un gigantesque champ de ruines. La plupart des humains ayant échappé au conflit vivent à bord de Station, un immense complexe spatial.
Jack Forster a combattu les IA de la Totalité pour le compte du Panthéon, secondé par Hugo Fist, une marionnette virtuelle, un logiciel de combat ultra-sophistiqué installé en lui. Considéré comme un traître parce qu'il s'est rendu à la Totalité, Jack revient des confins du système solaire pour laver son honneur et trouver sur Station les réponses aux questions qui le taraudent depuis sept ans.
Mais le temps presse : le contrat de licence de Fist arrive bientôt à échéance ; au-delà, c'est la marionnette qui prendra le contrôle, effaçant irrémédiablement l'esprit de Jack, le condamnant au néant.
Avec son univers original et ses personnages hors du commun - dont l'inénarrable Hugo Fist -, Station : La chute se lit comme un thriller. C'est LE roman cyberpunk du XXIe siècle.
A diamond-hard, visionary new SF thriller. Nailed-down cyberpunk ala William Gibson for the 21st century meets the vivid dark futures of Al Reynolds in this extraordinary debut novel.
With Earth abandoned, humanity resides on Station, an industrialised asteroid run by the sentient corporations of the Pantheon. Under their leadership a war has been raging against the Totality - ex-Pantheon AIs gone rogue.
With the war over, Jack Forster and his sidekick Hugo Fist, a virtual ventriloquist's dummy tied to Jack's mind and created to destroy the Totality, have returned home.
Labelled a traitor for surrendering to the Totality, all Jack wants is to clear his name but when he discovers two old friends have died under suspicious circumstances he also wants answers. Soon he and Fist are embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens not only their future but all of humanity's. But with Fist's software licence about to expire, taking Jack's life with it, can they bring down the real traitors before their time runs out?
Return to the world of Station in the sequel to the acclaimed Crashing Heaven.
Leila Fenech is dead. And so is her brother Dieter. But what's really pissing her off is how he sold his afterlife as part of an insurance scam and left her to pick up the pieces. She wants him back so she can kick his backside from here to the Kuiper Belt.
Station is humanity's last outpost. But this battle-scarred asteroid isn't just for the living. It's also where the dead live on as fetches: digital memories and scraps of personality gathered together and given life. Of a sort.
Leila won't stop searching Station until she's found her brother's fetch - but the sinister Pressure Men are stalking her every move. Clearly Dieter's got himself mixed up in something a whole lot darker than just some scam.
Digging deeper, Leila discovers there's far more than her brother's afterlife at stake. Could it be that humanity's last outpost is on the brink of disaster? Is it too late for even the dead to save it?
Waking Hell is a sequel to Crashing Heaven, the novel that announced the arrival of this exciting new talent.
