Summerland

Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning.

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How do you catch a spy whos already dead?

In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited.

Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased.

But Britain isnt the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build their own god.

When SIS agent Rachel White gets a lead on one of the Soviet moles, blowing the whistle puts her hard-earned career at risk. The spy has friends in high places, and she will have to go rogue to bring him in.

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Summerland: As if Alfred Hitchcock had made a movie with HP Lovecraft . . . A vision so original it deserves its own subgenre. And all worked out with the diamond-hard logic of a great SF writer. After Summerland, the thriller has a new geometryStephen Baxter

Eerily plausible, beautifully pitched on the cusp between wonder and horror, and thoroughly engrossing from the first page to the last Alastair Reynolds

Clever, subtle and . . . has a rich emotional centreSFX

Summerland is in its own way as persuasive an example of Rajaniemis disciplined inventiveness as his better-known hard SFLOCUS

Engaging writing, tight plotting and fantastic imaginationEd McDonald, author of Blackwing

A tense and twisting tale full of delightful allusions and ingeiousKen MacLeod

An intricate and vivid world of technological and spiritual wonderKirkus

Hard to admit, but I think hes better at this stuff than I amCharles Stross