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“Extremophile is biopunk: the technology it looks at is bioengineering rather than traditional cyberware. But it is a book which absolutely brings that angry resistance to the way the world has gone wrong, which in this case is simultaneously corporate and ecological. It’s not a world that has collapsed yet, but it’s a world where a great deal has been lost. It’s a book about angry young people who are living in an underclass in a broken state, where all of the power is concentrated in a vanishingly small set of hands. They’re doing what they can to fight back against the man.” Read more...
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Novelist
“It’s a caper, set in a climate-damaged near-future London, where a high-risk heist might save the world. Some of it is bound to go wrong and there’s a very densely imagined culture. There is an undercurrent of anger at what we are doing to our world and how corporations treat people.” Read more...
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Andrew M. Butler, Film Critics & Scholar
