Nova Swing: A Novel (Kefahuchi Tract)

Years after Ed Chianese's fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted--and, even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun to fall to Earth, transforming the landscapes they encounter.

Not far from Moneytown, in a neighborhood of underground clubs, body-modification chop shops, adolescent contract killers, and sexy streetwalking Monas, you'll find the Saudade Event Site: a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts--not to mention the black and white cats that come pouring out at irregular intervals.

Vic Serotonin is a "travel agent" into and out of Saudade. His latest client is a woman who's nearly as unpredictable as the site itself--and maybe just as dangerous. She wants a tour just as a troubling new class of biological artifacts are leaving the site--living algorithms that are transforming the world outside in inexplicable and unsettling ways. Shadowed by a metaphysically inclined detective determined to shut his illegal operation down, Vic must make sense of a universe rapidly veering toward a virulent and viral form of chaos...and a humanity almost lost.

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Published Sep 25, 2007

272 pages

Average rating: 6.75

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ChrisCarne
Jan 02, 2023
10/10 stars
(4.5 stars)

Harrison's riff on [b:Roadside Picnic|331256|Roadside Picnic|Arkady Strugatsky|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1173812259l/331256._SY75_.jpg|1243896] may lack some of the 'wow' factor of [b:Light|17735|Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)|M. John Harrison|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389700041l/17735._SX50_.jpg|295250] being a narratively more conventional outing. Still a hugely enjoyable piece of SF-noir with all the trademark Harrison grime, ambiguity, strangeness and brilliant writing that his reader have come to expect. It even, less usually, has a happy ended (for some characters anyway).

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