Another great great novel for you. I’ve been reading the books of Bill Bailey (the writer not the comedian) for many years now. A prolific, talented, and engaging storyteller that should definitely have a bigger audience. His non fiction is also worth your time, also. Anyway, here’s Xeno’s Paradox.
University lecturers, Luca and Max are brother and sister. Although they are genetic twins they don’t come from the same parents. They don’t understand it either, but they will. They are unsure that they are even human, but that is the very least of their problems.
We are in London, 800 years in the future. The only progress making great strides is greed, corruption, and surveillance. Innovation in technology, along with hope for humanity, ground to a halt many years ago and nobody knows why. Nobody questions the huge population drop. If fact nobody questions anything. The Re-ed process makes sure of that. Max and Luca suspect that history has been tampered with by their corrupt government.
Their plan to break into The Mint, an impenetrable government complex that houses the data they need, is put to the test by the deadliest of security. They need to retrieve the information they suspect has been compromised, to see how much of humanity’s past has been stolen from their lives. It’s never been attempted before, because it’s impossible. But something is pushing and urging them on, to take the chance – to risk everything. In an explosive, lethal, and otherworldly battle, they achieve their goal and discover much more than data – they are being helped by an unseen force.
This is only the beginning.
In Xeno’s Paradox, Bill Bailey has written a mind-weaving novel that reveals many levels and layers within its pages. You could be forgiven for reading it as a bullet-paced, sci-fi, and political thriller, but it’s so much more than that.
The book takes on philosophies of consciousness, the self, the universe, love, and how ‘good’ affects and works in tandem with its rotten twin, ‘evil’ (and vice-versa). It explores what is really pulling the invisible strings behind the too-big-to-fail corporations and governments, and offers some possible answers of hope along the way. It’s a literary MRI on the human condition.
The book is impeccably written by a talented author in charge of devastating wit, political awareness, and philosophical thought. He’s the architect of characters that live and breathe with us in our world and others. He skewers realism with the mind-blowing paradoxes we live with on a daily basis.
If you like the metaphysical intertwining’s of The Matrix, you’ll adore this book. If you like past-faced sci-fi thriller action, this book has you covered. It has everything you need, and more.
Highly recommended.
Also by the author:
THE HAUG QUINTET:
Taping Whores, Split Infinities, Oceans Apart, Comedians of Violence, Times Two.
Is Alice?
Stone the Crows
Xeno’s Paradox
The Ouroboros Ate the Tale
NON FICTION:
The Ghost Society
Stumbling Towards Hindsight 