A time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with a power unlike any we've seen before. When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne – tweed-suited, otherworldly, guided by the Grace – in the middle of a London riot, she sets in motion a series of events which will span decades, continents and a series of events which will change the world. From rioting London to geothermal Iceland to the climate-struck islands of Polynesia, from birth to life to death, from tranquillity to terror to joy, Raisa’s journey will encompass the world. But one thing will always be true. Hopeland is family--and family is dangerous.

Udgivet af Gollancz 

Ian McDonald
Engelsk forfatter hvis bøger har eccentriske tendenser. Skrev noveller fra begyndelsen af 80'erne og frem. Hans første roman; "Desolation Road" udkom I 1988. Hans roman "King of Morning, Queen of Day" fra 1991 vandt Phillip K. Dick prisen, og dens historie om alfer og feer I moderne omgivelser er også usædvanlig velskrevet. Senere er kommet "Terminal Café." En roman om en verden hvor de døde kommer tilbage. Novellen "Scissor Cut Paper Wrap Stone", om et par venner som cykler gennem Japan, blev også højt rost.