A successful trip - perhaps just a test to see if Rudi is up to the work - opens up a new sideline for him as an international courier, and so he becomes apprentice to the manipulative and antagonistic Fabio. This is a world of cloak-and-dagger pulp fiction, where Cold War spy stories meet paranoid conspiracies by way of the weird world-that’s-not-quite-our-world fiction of Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris.Īgainst this backdrop, Estonian chef Rudi gets roped into a journey from his Polish home into the independent Silesian state of Hindenberg. In such a divided continent, riven with mistrust and rivalry, borders are tightly controlled and those who can pass from polity to polity, by whatever clandestine means, become a powerful group. In this future, even a railway line can declare its own nationhood. Nations are breaking up into their constituent regions these regions are splitting into cities and neighbourhoods are declaring their own sovereignty. Keith Brooke explores a fractured fictional futureĪt some unspecified time in the not-too-distant future, for the random mix of reasons that all too often drive history, Europe is fragmenting into progressively smaller national entities – or polities, as Hutchinson labels them in Europe in Autumn.
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