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Extremophile
a breakneck biohacking thriller set in climate-collapse London
Extremophile
a breakneck biohacking thriller set in climate-collapse London
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Description
Meet Charlie and Parker. Hard-thrashing punks by night, not-entirely-ethical biohackers by day.
Give them your DNA and they'll map the epigenetic topology of your genome to the grand procession of the stars. Zodiac Code: it's a good distraction from the end of the world, if you don't care whether it's true.
But nihilism can only get you so far. Especially when criminals and corporations are hacking humanity for notoriety, immortality and, most importantly, profit.
Charlie and Parker have just the right kind of reputation – and know just the wrong sort of people – to be offered a job that might save the world. Or, more likely, get them killed in the process.
Product details
| Published | 06 Mar 2025 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781804545867 |
| Imprint | Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A radical, explosive story full of wild hope and venomous rage. Its near future apocalypse is not just prescient and subversive, but full of life, love and thrill in a way that makes it only breaths away from the world we are now. Its voice is challenging, unrelenting, and veering between heartbreak and humour. I feel like this book was written for me, specifically, but I know it's for us. All of us. With its queer community, found family, the dilemmas of resistance and the agony of survival, Extremophile was a song to my soul and a punch in the gut. Read it.
Hannah Kaner
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Absolute dirty-nailed cutting-edge biopunk. A world you can taste like a film of grime on the tongue. Phenomenally imaginative.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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A thrilling ride, full of invention and excitement
Josie Long
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The novel is clear-eyed about the peril our planet faces, but leavens the mood with a sparky, iconoclastic energy
Financial Times, Best Books of 2024
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An electric charge of anger animates this gripping novel
The Guardian
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[I can] see this taking its place in a future classics list of 21st century SF
Arthur C. Clarke, judging panel


















