This will soon be regarded as one of the most dazzling novels of its genre - Daily TelegraphAn amazing book: not just a triumphant return to science fiction, but an injection of style and content that will light up the genreA singular stylist - Times Literary Supplementa witty and truly imaginative writer - Literary ReviewHarrison is best known as one of the restless fathers of modern SF, but to my mind he is among the most brilliant novelists writing today, with regard to whom the question of genre is an irrelevanceAustere, unflinching and desperately moving, he is one of the very great writers alive today.