The Chaos Function

Jack Skillingstead

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Miscellaneous
29 February 2020

Adventure; Science fiction; Apocalyptic; Post Holocaust Sci-Fi; Time Travel; Advanced Technology; Thriller Horror

“This crackling road trip through the apocalypse offers thrills all the way to its explosive, satisfying finale.” — Publishers Weekly

“Relentless, terrifying, and affecting, this book left me feeling like I’d been strapped to the front of the car like Mad Max in Fury Road—not realizing that it was taking me to an emotional ending that would leave me gutted. I’ve been a huge fan of Skillingstead’s work for years, but in The Chaos Function he’s outdone himself!” — Daryl Gregory, award-winning author of Spoonbenders

For readers of the best-selling novels Sleeping Giants and Dark Matter, an intense, high-stakes thriller with a science-fiction twist that asks: If technology enabled you to save the life of someone you love, would you do so even if it might doom millions

Olivia Nikitas, a hardened journalist whose specialty is war zones, has been reporting from the front lines of the civil war in Aleppo, Syria. When Brian, an aid worker she reluctantly fell in love with, dies while following her into danger, she’ll do anything to bring him back. In a makeshift death chamber beneath an ancient, sacred site, a strange technology is revealed to Olivia: the power to remake the future by changing the past.

Following her heart and not her head, Olivia brings Brian back, accidentally shifting the world to the brink of nuclear and biological disaster. Now she must stay steps ahead of the guardians of this technology, who will kill her to reclaim it, in order to save not just herself and her love, but the whole world.

By: Jack Skillingstead
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9780358332725
ISBN 10: 0358332729
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 29 February 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jack Skillingstead's Harbinger was nominated for a Locus Award for best first novel. His second, Life on the Preservation, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He has published more than forty short stories to critical acclaim and was short-listed for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His writing has been translated internationally.

Reviews for The Chaos Function

"""A compelling near-future thriller of hard choices and unintended consequences. This is science fiction that feels all too real. Highly recommended."" -- Ramez Naam, award-winning author of the Nexus trilogy"