The Future by Naomi Alderman

The Future by Naomi Alderman

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a "page-turning" (Los Angeles Times), "propulsive" (The Boston Globe), "thrilling" (BookPage, starred review) tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

Martha Einkorn never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry while spouting technological prophecy. Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What do they know about the future that Zhen doesn't?

When Martha and Zhen's worlds collide, an explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha's relentless drive and Zhen's insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful--or it could herald the cataclysmic end of civilization.

By turns "playful, incisive, horribly relevant, and surprisingly hopeful" (Lauren Beukes, New York Times bestselling author of The Shining Girls), The Future unfolds at breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here.

Naomi Alderman has written four books. She won the Orange Award for New Writers in 2006, was nominated Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2007, and was chosen one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future in 2008. BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime has broadcast all of her novels. She was named to the prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers list in 2013. She is based in London.

Malorie Blackman is the author of more than seventy books for children and young adults, including the Noughts & Crosses series, Thief, and Chasing the Stars, a science-fiction thriller. Many of her stories have been adapted for theatre and television, including Pig-Heart Boy, which won a BAFTA award, and Noughts & Crosses, which was staged by Sabrina Mahfouz for the Pilot Theatre. Noughts & Crosses is also being produced by the BBC, with Roc Nation (Jay-Z's entertainment firm) serving as executive music producer. Malorie received the Eleanor Farjeon Prize in 2005 for her outstanding contribution to the field of children's literature.

She was awarded an OBE in 2008 for her contributions to children's literature, and she served as the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Malorie has most recently written for the BBC One Doctor Who series, and her fifth Noughts & Crosses novel, Crossfire, was published by Penguin Random House Children's in summer 2019. Neil Gaiman is the author of the bestselling novels Coraline and Stardust, both of which have been made into big cinema pictures. Beowulf, starring Anthony Hopkins and Angeline Jolie, was also co-written by Neil.

Charlie Higson began writing at the age of ten and is the creator/writer of the award-winning Sandman comic series. He has also authored several children's novels. He worked as a vocalist, painter, and decorator after graduating from university before beginning to write for television. He went on to conceive and appear in The Fast Show, a tremendously popular comedy series. He's the creator of the bestselling Young Bond series as well as the hugely popular horror series The Enemy.

Charlie isn't on Facebook, but you may follow him on Twitter at @monstroso. Alex Scarrow began his career as a rock musician, then as a graphic artist, and finally as a computer game designer. He eventually grew up and went on to become an author. He's written several successful novels and screenplays, but it's YA literature that has allowed him to really enjoy the ideas and concepts he was experimenting with when making games.

Alex is a Norwich resident. Richelle Mead is the author of the Vampire Academy, Bloodlines, and Age of X series, which have all been bestselling. Her interest in fantasy and science fiction began when her father read her Greek mythology and her brothers forced her to watch Flash Gordon when she was a child. Richelle went on to study folklore and religion at the University of Michigan, and when she's not writing, she enjoys drinking copious amounts of coffee, watching reality TV, and collecting 1980s T-shirts.

Richelle resides in Seattle, Washington, with her family. Eoin Colfer is the New York Times best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl trilogy, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Airman, and The Legend of.

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ISBN 13	9781668025680
ISBN 10	166802568X
Title	The Future
Author	Naomi Alderman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2023-11-07
Number of pages	432
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