A History of What Comes Next
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  • Published: 1 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9781405945530
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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A History of What Comes Next

The captivating speculative fiction perfect for fans of The Eternals

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1 Mar 2022
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18 Feb 2021
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4 Mar 2021
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Captivating high-concept fiction as rich as The Man in the High Castle and as packed with thrills as Ready Player One

1945.

Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent to Germany by the OSS. Her mission: stop the Russians getting hold of Germany - and the world's - foremost rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun.

But Mia is no ordinary girl. She only looks human. And there's an even darker conflict on Earth. A secret struggle thousands of years old. It has engulfed and taken generations of Mia's people.

Can the firing of rockets finally bring about its end?

Can Mia, as the last of her kind, bring the stars down to earth?

And if she succeeds, what will happen to us?
  • Published: 1 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9781405945530
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Sylvain Neuvel

Sylvain Neuvel is the author of the Themis Files trilogy: Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods, and the upcoming Only Human. Sleeping Giants has been optioned by Sony Pictures for development into a film and was sold for translation into twenty languages. He lives in Montreal.

Also by Sylvain Neuvel

For the First Time, Again
Until the Last of Me
Only Human
Waking Gods
Sleeping Giants
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Praise for A History of What Comes Next

It's fascinating to see how Neuvel weaves together fact and fiction . . . a blast. Seriously clever

SFX

An alt-history with a difference. Traces the true story of the development of rocket science but adds an alien-conspiracy-theory edge in the shape of a fictional team of mother-daughter clones. Along with the problems faced by women trying to change the world (or at least get men to listen to them), they are threatened by a mysterious 'Tracker' who has spent centuries trying to kill them. Good fun

Guardian

A dark and ambitious book. Neuvel is forging ahead

SFX Magazine

Wry narration, wired action . . . Fans of alternate history and intelligent sci-fi will love this

Publishers Weekly

Clever and compelling, it will keep you enthralled until the end

Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of <i>The Oppenheimer Alternative</i>

Highly crafted and unique

Library Journal

There's real cleverness at work here. Mia, bent on getting humanity sufficiently technologically developed so that they can leave Earth, makes some dodgy-sounding moral choices as she works towards humanity's salvation

The Times

A blast. Seriously clever fun

SFX
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