Braking Day

Braking Day
Adam Oyebanji
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 480pg
5 Apr 2022 UK
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9781529417128
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Interstellar Vehicle Archimedes has been hurtling through space for more than five generations, an oasis of heat and light in the middle of absolutely nowhere. But now the ageing starship is preparing to brake, for it is arriving at Destination Star: Tau Ceti, the new home for the space-born descendants of the First Crew. For trainee engineer Ravinder MacLeod, the world he knows is coming to an end. Once Archimedes succumbs to the gravitational pull of the Destination Star and its (hopefully) habitable planet, there will be no going back - or anywhere else. As Braking Day approaches, Ravi finds himself caught between the rigid requirements of the officer class to which he aspires and his blue-collar, ne' er-do-well family. Unfortunately for Ravi, Boz, his brilliant ex-con cousin, seems determined to make his life difficult - not least by her experiments with forbidden technology. Then Ravi is assigned to routine maintenance deep in the massive engines of the Archimedes, where, alone and out of contact, he comes face to face with something impossible - mind-breakingly impossible. Plagued by nightmares and visions and worried that his grip on reality is slipping, Ravi turns to Boz for help. Their search for answers takes them to the jagged place where the ship' s future intersects with its long past. For not everyone is excited to be reaching journey' s end, and the ghosts of the First Crew may not have been fully laid to rest.
Engaging, fast-moving, and inventive. The characters and the space environment feel totally real, as do the life-and-death challenges that never miss a step * New York Times bestselling author JACK CAMPBELL * Adam Oyebanji' s BRAKING DAY blows the airlocks off the science fiction mainstay of generation ships with a vibrant world within bulkheads that' s as convincing as it is fresh. The characters are fabulous, the world-building impeccable yet never in-your-face, and the plot is breathtaking. All I can say is this is the best SF novel I' ve read in decades and it may be the best I' ve ever read. This author is now a must-read for me, and I' m sure he will be for you. Bravo!! * JULIE E. CZERNEDA, Aurora Award-winning author of IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS * Oyebanji crafts an amazing lived-in world aboard a sprawling generation ship, and a twisty mystery that' ll keep you guessing to the very end * DAN MOREN, author of the Galactic Cold War series * BRAKING DAY is an outstanding debut novel that features exceptional world-building and a really well-realised generation ship society. Filled with twists and turns, it kept me guessing in the best way right up until the end * MICHAEL MAMMAY, author of the PLANETSIDE series *
Adam Oyebanji was born in Coatbridge, in the West of Scotland, and is now in Edinburgh, by way of Birmingham, London, Lagos, Nigeria, Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York. After graduating from Birmingham University and Harvard Law School, he worked as a barrister, before moving to New York to work in counter-terrorist financing in Wall Street, helping to choke off the money supply that builds weapons of mass destruction, narcotics empires and human trafficking networks. Braking Day is his first novel.
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ISBN-13: 9781529417128
Published: 5 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Jo Fletcher Books
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 480

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