Momenticon

Momenticon, Book 1

By: Andrew Caldecott

Narrated by: John Hastings

A hugely compelling, dark, offbeat adventure from the best-selling author of Rotherweird.

The world has become a dangerous place. Despite the environmentalists' best efforts, the atmosphere has turned toxic, destroying almost all life—plants, animals and most of humanity, too.

Survivors live in domes protected by chitin shields, serving one or other of the two great companies, Lord Vane's Tempestas or Lord Sine's Genrich, with their very different visions for mankind's future. A long period of uneasy collaboration between them is about to end.

Far from these centres of power stands the Museum Dome, where persons unknown have assembled mankind's finest paintings and artefacts and installed a young man, Fogg, as its curator. Here he has laboured for three years without a single visitor and with only AIPT, his automated physical trainer, for company.

Then a single mysterious pill—a momenticon—appears in the museum and triggers a series of bewildering events, embroiling Fogg and his unexpected new companions in a desperate fight against the dark forces which threaten to overwhelm all that remains.

And time is running out.

©2022 Andrew Caldecott (P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited

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Over the past year Andrew Caldecott has swiftly become one of my most-sought authors. I've listened through his Rotherweird trilogy three times, and listened to the first half of this one twice, because there is so-o much going on, and you don't want to miss a bit or you'll get left in the murk. His characters are SMRT, I mean s-m-A-r-t! As in well read, logical, and able to make profound leaps of reason for problem solving. I'll be processing this one for a little while before going into the sequel, Simul, but I'm already looking forward to it.