Distraction
On sale
14th May 2026
Price: £12.99
Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2000
Genre
Selected:
Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781399640381
“This is a very smart, very funny book” – Locus
“Enthralling and subversive” – SF Commentary
“An excellent piece of future-gazing” – Amazon Reviewer
A Dutch Cold War is in full swing. The US is a shadow of its former self – its infrastructure is failing, and nomadic tribes roam freely among the states, living by no rules but their own.
Oscar Valpariso – always impeccably dressed – is only half human, but he’s master political strategist to potentially the next president. If he can straighten out his love life, gain control of a high-tech scientific facility, and solve a worldwide crisis that only he’s noticed, America should be ripe for the taking . . .
“Enthralling and subversive” – SF Commentary
“An excellent piece of future-gazing” – Amazon Reviewer
A Dutch Cold War is in full swing. The US is a shadow of its former self – its infrastructure is failing, and nomadic tribes roam freely among the states, living by no rules but their own.
Oscar Valpariso – always impeccably dressed – is only half human, but he’s master political strategist to potentially the next president. If he can straighten out his love life, gain control of a high-tech scientific facility, and solve a worldwide crisis that only he’s noticed, America should be ripe for the taking . . .
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