Osiris
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  • Published: 30 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473584785
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

Osiris

The Osiris Project

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EBook
30 Apr 2020
Audiobook
4 Jul 2013
Paperback
2 Sep 2013
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An intense, politically engaged dystopian thriller.

Nobody leaves Osiris.

Adelaide Rechnov
Wealthy socialite and granddaughter of the Architect, she spends her time in pointless luxury, rebelling against her family in a series of jaded social extravagances and scandals until her twin brother disappears in mysterious circumstances.

Vikram Bai
He lives in the Western Quarter, home to the poor descendants of storm refugees and effectively quarantined from the wealthy elite. His people live with cold and starvation, but the coming brutal winter promises civil unrest, and a return to the riots of previous years.

As tensions rise in the city, can Adelaide and Vikram bridge the divide at the heart of Osiris before conspiracies bring them to the edge of disaster?
  • Published: 30 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473584785
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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About the author

E. J. Swift

E. J. Swift is the author of Osiris, the first novel in The Osiris Project trilogy.

Her short fiction has appeared in Interzone magazine, and in anthologies Pandemonium: The Lowest Heaven, and The Best British Fantasy 2013. When not writing, she is kept busy as a slave to cats and an aficionado of the trapeze.

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Praise for Osiris

an assured and accomplished debut novel ... an absolute gem

Interzone

A fantastic blend of worldbuilding, excellent storytelling and complex characters.

John DeNardo, SF Signal

Swift’s first novel, with its brilliant near-future vision of an ecologically and socially devastated world and characters who resonate with life and passion, marks her as an author to watch.

Jackie Cassada, Library Journal

A glittering first novel: a kind of flooded Gormenghast treated with the alienated polish of DeLillo's Cosmopolis. The result is a gripping novel, readable, beautiful, politically engaged and wholly accomplished. Swift is a ridiculously talented writer.

Adam Roberts

Dystopia is back ... it's the characters, and what their lives show us of the fascinating, stratified world of Osiris, that are the heart of this promising debut novel

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