Intrusion
‘Insightful and ingenious . . . Intrusion is both horrific and comic, and deals movingly with the consequences of genetic fixes’ – GUARDIAN
‘Intrusion is a finely-tuned, in-your-face argument of a novel . . . MacLeod will push your buttons – and make you think’ – SFX
Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child.
Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four-year-old, is expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn child?
A plausible and original novel with sinister echoes of 1984 and Brave New World.
Books by Ken MacLeod:
Fall Revolution
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road
Engines of Light
Cosmonaut Keep
Dark Light
Engine City
Corporation Wars Trilogy
Dissidence
Insurgence
Emergence
Novels
The Human Front
Newton’s Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent
‘Intrusion is a finely-tuned, in-your-face argument of a novel . . . MacLeod will push your buttons – and make you think’ – SFX
Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child.
Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four-year-old, is expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn child?
A plausible and original novel with sinister echoes of 1984 and Brave New World.
Books by Ken MacLeod:
Fall Revolution
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road
Engines of Light
Cosmonaut Keep
Dark Light
Engine City
Corporation Wars Trilogy
Dissidence
Insurgence
Emergence
Novels
The Human Front
Newton’s Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent
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Reviews
A steely, brilliant piece of work
Ken MacLeod is the modern day George Orwell
A twistedly clever, frighteningly plausible dystopian glimpse
A haunting, gripping story of resistance, terror, and an all-consuming state that commits its atrocities with the best of intentions
It's all so close to the bone it's almost painful... Intrusion is a rather frightening vision of the road we are taking with our smoking bans and our obesity epidemics and our CCTVs
This near-future sci-fi novel could almost be a sequel to George Orwell's 1984 - 2084, perhaps
A disturbingly real socialist dystopia
Intrusion is a finely-tuned, in-your-face argument of a novel . . . MacLeod will push your buttons - and make you think
Exciting...Accessible to the average reader as well as the hardcore SF fan. This is a work sure to keep the reader on the edge of her seat.
This near-future sci-fi novel could almost be a sequel to George Orwell's 1984 - 2084, perhaps
Stylish, witty, and engaging!
Far more fun than deep space drama has any right to be...Just read the book. Then read it again. It's even better the second time.