Chris Beckett is a former university lecturer and social worker living in Cambridge. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, 2009, for The Turing Test, the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, for Dark Eden and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award for Mother of Eden in 2015 and for Daughter of Eden in 2016.
America City is beautifully written, inventive, with a strong cast of characters... and a plot that makes the reader think, and is another great book from one of the best writers around. * Concatenation * Tells an all too believable story. * Daily Mail (Scotland) * Chris Beckett is a genius. * Eric Brown bestselling author of THE SERENE INVASION * Compelling... a grim demonstration of how one person can change history, but not control it. * SFX * Vivid and disturbing... An uneasy read that manages to feel both timely and urgent. * Guardian *