Outlaw Planet
The wild, exhilarating SF adventure
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- 105,00 kr
Publisher Description
A LONE OUTLAW, HAUNTED BY HER PAST, WITH ALL THE MULTIVERSE AGAINST HER . . .
'A sweeping story of vengeance, love and redemption, set against a backdrop of unimaginably vast interdimensional conflict' Claire North, award-winning author of 84K and Slow Gods
Discover this thrilling stand-alone science fiction adventure set in the world of the Pandominion from the million-copy bestselling M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts and the Philip K. Dick Award-shortlisted Infinity Gate.
Sometimes the fate of entire worlds can be decided by a woman with nothing to lose, and the smartest gun in the multiverse in her hand . . .
This is the story of Bess - or Dog-Bitch Bess as she came to be known. It's the story of the gun she carried, whose name was Wakeful Slim. It's the story of the dead man who carried that gun before her and left a piece of himself inside it. And it's the tale of how she turned from teacher, to renegade, and ultimately to hero.
This is also the tale of the last violent engagements in an inter-dimensional war - one of the most brutal the multiverse had ever seen.
This is how Bess learned the truth about her world. Came to it the hard way, through pain and loss and the reckless spilling of blood, and carried it with her like a brand on her soul. And once she knew it - knew for sure how badly she'd been used - she had no option but to do something about it.
From one of science fiction's most original and revolutionary voices comes a tale like no other. Vengeance always comes with a price . . .
Praise for Outlaw Planet:
'A character you can't forget in a lush, inventive world that expands past the wildest horizon' David Wellington, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated The Last Astronaut
'Western and science fiction tropes collide to brilliant, fresh effect' Kirkus
'Studded with wild worldbuilding details, this cinematic saga has nary a dull moment' Publishers Weekly
'His best novel yet' SFX
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This bold standalone from Carey (Once Was Willem) relays the hair-raising exploits of four-footed, foul-mouthed outlaw Dog-Bitch Bess and her extraordinary sentient weapon, Wakeful Slim. Set in the wild frontiers of the States' Union around the year 3000, when canine-human hybrids are the norm, the novel opens with Bess's outlaw origin story. Her disdain for her privileged northern existence as the daughter of an industrialist prompts her to respond to a notice seeking a schoolmistress in distant small-town Ottomankie. On a wagon train there, Bess witnesses a stickup that ends with the murder of an innocent passenger. Spurred by this injustice, she takes up manhunting in addition to teaching and wins talking pistol Slim, a "smart gun" from a different part of the multiverse, as a prize in a gunfight. After Bess's lover, Martha, is killed by a raiding party, Bess and Slim set out on a deeply personal revenge mission. Carey hints at the injustices in his imagined society (there are "exactly seventeen" enslaved squirrels in Ottomankie) but mostly avoids thorny topics to make an entertaining study of weird western tropes. The sci-fi elements eventually ramp up, revealing a multiverse caught in a never-ending cycle of war. Told in a twangy voice and studded with wild worldbuilding details, this cinematic saga has nary a dull moment.
