2040 - Couverture souple

Tottle, Graham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910298808 ISBN 13 : 9781910298800

Editeur : Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

A thought-provoking and fast-paced thriller set in a universe where political and environmental choices have led to a sinister dystopian society.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This novel weaves an enthralling tale leading from 1990 into our near future in 2040. It's set in the UK (the ship-shattering shores of Wales, the Industrial North, atomic power stations, Cambridge, London); the US (Chesapeake Bay, Washington); the deserts and capital of Iraq and amid Uganda's jungles and towering volcanoes. Adventure, romance and humour. Fascinating reading for people for whom science, IT, language, Africa, the environment, the surveillance society, terrorism, global warming and the recession are of interest. Also for yachties, bikers, Radio 4 listeners, divers, railway buffs, and walkers. An underlying theme is the battle for hearts and minds between dictatorships and democracies in our century. Your author is an Anglo-Scot, whose forebears were seafarers from Orkney and Hull. He is a Cambridge trained historian and computer scientist. The cartoon shows him under surveillance as a consultant in Saddam Hussein s Ministry of Planning at the first Gulf war, where he was later a hostage until he escaped.

Biographie de l'auteur

Graham Tottle is a Cambridge trained historian, computer scientist and programmer. For twenty years he was in R&D in the Research Division with International Computers. Since the seventies he has worked as an expert in twenty countries, often hotspots and war zones, at the leading edge of IT, for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, World Bank, the European Union, and the UK Department for International Development. He was educated at Bishops, South Africa, Hurstpierpoint, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. He lives on a canal boat in Cheshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910298808
• ISBN 13: 9781910298800
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 349
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible