![]() The author’s love of both spy fiction and the weird comes through strongly: Hutchinson clearly had a lot of fun with this novel. ![]() A successful trip - perhaps just a test to see if Rudi is up to the work - opens up a new sideline for him as an international courier, and so he becomes apprentice to the manipulative and antagonistic Fabio. This is a world of cloak-and-dagger pulp fiction, where Cold War spy stories meet paranoid conspiracies by way of the weird world-that’s-not-quite-our-world fiction of Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris.Īgainst this backdrop, Estonian chef Rudi gets roped into a journey from his Polish home into the independent Silesian state of Hindenberg. ![]() In such a divided continent, riven with mistrust and rivalry, borders are tightly controlled and those who can pass from polity to polity, by whatever clandestine means, become a powerful group. In this future, even a railway line can declare its own nationhood. Nations are breaking up into their constituent regions these regions are splitting into cities and neighbourhoods are declaring their own sovereignty. ![]() ![]() Keith Brooke explores a fractured fictional futureĪt some unspecified time in the not-too-distant future, for the random mix of reasons that all too often drive history, Europe is fragmenting into progressively smaller national entities – or polities, as Hutchinson labels them in Europe in Autumn. ![]()
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