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  • Published: 1 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9781405945554
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99

Until the Last of Me




Spellbinding high-concept fiction as rich as The Man in the High Castle and as packed with thrills as Ready Player One

The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'.

For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices along the way.

And now, in 1968, Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. But with her adversary approaching and the future of the planet at stake, obeying the First Rule is no longer an option.

For the first time since her line's first generation, Mia will have to stand her ground, risking not only her bloodline, but the future of the human race.

  • Published: 1 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9781405945554
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99

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.

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Praise for Until the Last of Me

Praise for Sylvain Neuvel

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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 The Oppenheimer Alternative

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

Highly crafted and unique

Library Journal

Introspective, lyrical and with a growing sense of menace running under it all

The Times