James Ward

Humankind 2.0 (Tales of MI7, #16) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today." - Publisher's Daily. "John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget." - The Booklife Review.

MI7 is expecting an eccentric new recruit in the person of Chasha Jones, self-described (only partly tongue-in-cheek) as "the most intelligent woman in London." She's hard-working, insightful, and fun to work alongside. But the day she's due to begin, there's no sign of her.

Then, outlandishly, it turns out she's hitched her wagon to a completely different star.

Specifically, she's joined forces with an eccentric Briton called Hector Raynebow. Raynebow used to be an environmentalist, but he's rejected all that on the grounds that humanity, in its present form, is incapable of saving the world: it is too self-centred, short-sighted, and fractious. Don't worry, though, he has the perfect solution: Humankind 2.0, an exponential advance on homo sapiens, developed via cutting-edge gene technology. His "new humans" will, of course, be intelligent and rational enough to act with the necessary altruism. Yet more than a few governments don't hear the words, "new humans"; they hear "super-soldiers". And the question is, assuming Raynebow really is capable of developing such things, who is going to get their hands on them first? John Mordred is assigned to investigate. Once he's two thousand miles from home, and hemmed in by hostile forces, guess who turns up to help? Yes, it's Chasha Jones.

"James Ward brings protagonist John Mordred alive on the page ... The author displays exceptional ability when it comes to storytelling." - Emerald Book Review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cool Millennium
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393728252
• Artikelnr.: 60165321

Autorenporträt

James Ward lives and works in southern England and has been married for over forty years. He has two grown-up boys. His hobbies include walking with his dog in the countryside, visiting charity shops, and reading. He writes fiction, philosophy and poetry, and publishes under the "Cool Millennium Books" imprint (which he hopes one day to broaden to include other authors, and which has its own website). He has over 40,000 followers on TikTok, where he regularly posts videos about serious literature. He can also be found on YouTube.

His most ambitious project, the Tales of MI7 series, was written between 2010 and 2020. It consists of eighteen self-contained novels, set in contemporary London and linked by characters and timeline. It was never intended to be a "series" in the sense of a continuous narrative across different volumes; rather, readers can enjoy any one book without having read the others. All examine the major political, social, international and moral concerns of the second decade of the 21st century. Each individual volume - with the exception of Our Woman in Jamaica - was written contemporaneously with the year in which it was set.

Beginning in 2025 with Firearms & the Fortress, he intends to re-focus his energies on producing philosophical texts intended to throw light on the contemporary world (His 21st Century Philosophy and A New Theory of Justice were both produced over a decade ago). He has an MA and a DPhil in Philosophy, both from the University of Sussex.