She should be walking around with a biohazard symbol tattooed on her forehead.” (p.100) She has this urge to manipulate, to control. “Milena promises Alex that she didn’t plant any subconscious commands in him, but Alex isn’t so sure. What follows is a game-changing event that could have repercussions for the entire human race. In a dark and grimy near-future London, Alex meets Milena, a young girl genius who needs his gene-hacking skills for a personal project she is working on. It’s set in a near future fractured by political upheaval and out-of-control biotech its story, likewise fractured, is set in real places (London, Paris, Albania).”įairyland’s main character is Alex Sharkey, an overweight biochemical hacker who designs tailor-made psychoactive viruses which change the way you feel and think.
“Fairyland is, I suppose, my breakout novel. Here is the author talking about the book in an interview posted on the SF Gateway website’s blog: It was also the first novel published by Gollancz to win the Arthur C. It is the 150 th title to join Gollancz’s SF Masterworks collection. Paul McAuley’s 1995 novel Fairyland had been on my radar for a while until a laudatory tweet by author Adam Roberts convinced me to buy a copy. The man has been targeted by a hornet, a small, self-powered micro-missile guided by scent to a specific target.” (p.267) People scatter – they know what’s about to happen. “The man runs in a desperate zig-zag scramble, waving his arms as if trying to swat something.
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