Dimensions
130 x 197 x 18mm
2035 - Richard Somers, ex-rock star, tucked away safely in an enclave for the very rich and the very powerful, is bored. Every luxury wealth can buy and an affair with the wife of a senior civil servant are not enough. But back into his life comes his sister Hannah-Rosa and her troupe of travelling dancers - and with her a disk containing their father's unpublished scenario describing man's . . . or rather woman's origins in a Garden of Eden on the shores of an African lake.
'Trajectories' contrasts the idyll that was the origin of the species with its final decades in a polluted, doomed environment, the pampered, secure life of the haves and the squalor and civil strife of the majority, and adds up to an apocalyptic vision which is both prophecy and warning - a user's guide to the twenty-first century.
Not science fiction, or fantasy, but a novel whose every horror is already present or foreshadowed in the world we live in, 'Trajectories' will confirm Rathbone's reputation as a major writer for our times.
