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Version 43

Philip Palmer

3 Reviews

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Fiction, Science fiction

A wide-screen adventure of death and robots on a violent frontier world.

The odds of surviving quantum teleportation to the Exodus Universe are, more or less, fifty/fifty. The only ones crazy enough to try it are the desperate, the insane and those sentenced to death for their crimes. Belladonna is home to the survivors and, in a planet run by criminals and desperados, death is commonplace. But a particularly horrific (and improbable) killing attracts the Galactic Police force, and a cyborg cop is sent to investigate.

Version 43 has been here before, and has old scores to settle. The cop was human once, but is now more programme than man. And he intends to clean up this planet, permanently, whatever the cost.

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Praise for Version 43

  • Palmer's lip-smackingly over the top exploration of crime and retribution will delight' Guardian - 'Entertaining far-future thriller . packed to bursting with invention and jaw-dropping ultraviolence'

  • SFX - 'What sets the novel apart, other than its bristling imaginative brio, is the underlying humour . Playful prose and relentless, explosive action make

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Philip Palmer

Philip Palmer is a science fiction and fantasy novelist whose books for Orbit include Debatable Space, Version 43 and Hell Ship. He's also written for televison, radio and film, and his credits include The Many Lives of Albert Walker, The Faerie Queene and The King's Coiner.

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