First in the Nulapeiron Sequence.
With its vast subterranean cities and extraordinary organic technologies, Nulapeiron is a world unlike any other. However, such wonders mean little to the majority of its inhabitants, ruled over by despotic Logic Lords and the Oracles, supra-human beings whose ability to truecast the future maintains the status quo.
In a crowded marketplace, Tom Corcorigan is witness to the brutal killing of a fleeing woman by a militia squad. His shock turns to horror when he recognises her as the stranger who, only the day before, had presented him with a small, seemingly insignificant info-crystal. Only now, as the fire in her obsidian eyes fades, does he realise who - or what - she really was: a figure from legend, a Pilot.
What Tom has yet to discover is that the crystal holds the key to mu-space, and so to freedom itself. For he has been given a destiny to fulfill - nothing less than the rewriting of his future, and that of his world . . .
Spectacularly staged, thrillingly written and set in a visionary future, 'Paradox' places John Meaney at the forefront of science fiction in this new century.
