The Politics of Fear - Couverture souple

Lorimer, Z Bennett

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1968122109 ISBN 13 : 9781968122102

Editeur : High Trestle Press, 2026

Synopsis

Nothing strains the bonds of an alliance quite like peace and prosperity.

The Defensive Compact was a fine idea at its inception-a supranational governing body created by treaty between 237 interplanetary civilizations. And all it took to bring the squabbling, self-interested, xenophobic parties to terms was a shared existential threat.

That threat arrived in the form of the Dorylus Encephalon, a collective organism driven by its biological imperative to incorporate or eradicate every extrinsic genetic line it encounters. Thanks to the alliance, Compact forces managed to battle the Enceph to a stalemate. The resulting cease-fire shields Compact worlds from further Enceph incursion-as long as everyone abides by its terms.

One-thousand years into the cessation of hostilities, those same Compact worlds have become hopelessly entangled in a corrupt web of economic, military, and cultural ties. The Compact Assembly is the bloated bureaucratic organ responsible for its administration. Mats Hyyland enjoys a permanent political appointment to the Assembly as Eminent Voice of the Human Diaspora-permanent being the operative word. In a vain attempt to cling to power, he achieves virtual immortality by cycling his consciousness through a series of increasingly volatile clones. When the Assembly is rocked by a high-profile political assassination, Hyyland's investigation leads him to uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very cease-fire holding the Enceph at bay. Hyyland's race to prevent that dire outcome sets him at odds with his fellow corrupt politicians, amoral corporate plutocrats, a parasitic priesthood, flamboyant pirates, self-righteous academics, an oversexed cartel queenpin, a dying bounty hunter, and a kleptosexual prostitute with a remarkable anatomic quirk.

Politics, in other words.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: High Trestle Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1968122109
• ISBN 13: 9781968122102
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 648
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible