Conquest

By Nina Allan,

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Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves about him: his innocence, his intelligence, his passionate immersion in the music of JS Bach. As a coder, Frank sees patterns in everything, but as his theories slide further towards the irrational, Rachel becomes…

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1 author picked Conquest as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Nina Allan is one the UK’s greatest science fiction writers working today, and yet often, her work is barely speculative at all. Conquest concerns a missing conspiracy theorist who is obsessed with the possibility of an upcoming war against aliens. Yet, it’s structured far more like a detective story than a classic science fiction novel – though the complete SF novella buried with the book is another story.

Allan’s interspersing of academic texts further blurs the line between fact and fiction.

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