- English literature, Fiction, Wizards, Magic - Fiction
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous "silicon roundabout", Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant's favourite son. Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the SCC. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological - and just as dangerous.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, contemporary, cool and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Ben Aaronovitch
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, DAW
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781473207875
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 3 have read it and 6 want to.
Ben Aaronovitch was born in 1964. He had parents, some brothers, some sisters and a dog named after a Russian cosmonaut. He also had the kind of dull childhood that drives a person to drink, radical politics or science fiction. Discovering in his early twenties that he had precisely one talent, he took up screenwriting at which he was an overnight success. He wrote for Doctor Who, Casualty and the world’s cheapest ever SF soap opera Jupiter Moon. He then wrote for Virgin’s New Adventures until they pulped all his books. Then Ben entered a dark time illuminated only by an episode of Dark Knight, a book for Big Finish and the highly acclaimed but not-very-well-paying Blake’s 7 Audio dramas. Tr
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Foxglove Summer 201487% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary.
The Hanging Tree 201586% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary.
Both classical in form, contemporary.
Broken Homes 201384% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary.
Moon over Soho 201184% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary.
Red Team Blues 202383% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary.
The furthest station 201781% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary.
Tricked 201281% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary.
Midnight Occult Civil Servants 201984% alikeTelevision · Both classical in form, contemporary.
Rounders 199882% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, contemporary.