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    The Hammond Conjecture: The Pentacle Papers, #1

    By MB Reed

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    The Hammond Conjecture is an alternative-history novel which explores themes of memory, identity and historical narrative. It is also a lot of fun.

     

    Are you sure you know who you are? If your memories disappeared and were replaced with someone else's, would you still be you? And what if those memories were not just from another person - but of a different world?

    London 1982. Regaining consciousness in an isolation ward of catatonic patients, glimpsing the outside world only through a television news bulletin, that is the dilemma facing Hugh Hammond.

    Gradually Hugh's memories return – of his life as an MI6 officer a decade earlier. But in a world where Britain has been locked in a lonely Cold War against a fascist-dominated Europe.

    Are his memories false: delusions, or implanted as part of a mind-control experiment? Or was the television news fake – and if so, why? 

    Hugh types out his recollections: an adventure which takes him from an opium den in Limehouse, via a hippie encampment in British-occupied North France, to a State Reception for the Deputy Führer in the Durbar Court in Whitehall, and to a Le Carré-style climax in the divided city of Paris. Meanwhile in the hospital Hugh struggles to understand his predicament - and to escape from it.

     

    "Very well thought-out … Reminds me of Michael Moorcock's earlier novels." – Gary Gibson, leading British sci-fi writer.​

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Reed
    Release dateFeb 25, 2021
    ISBN9781393909354
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