updated – 7.2.2012
Kosmonaut Zero – review
‘Excellent science fiction. I couldn’t put my laptop down for a second’ – Kosmonaut Zero receives a detailed review from writer & blogger Laura Rosten here.
The novel is available now for the Kindle (and on Kindle apps for mobile, tablet and computer). Buy here.
For details of how to get the Kindle app on your device, see here.
Kosmonaut Zero – synopsis
“Conditions growing worse.. why don’t you answer?
…. The world will never know about me.”
Actual radio transmission from a ‘lost’ female cosmonaut (c.1965)
Marina Mernova: older sister to little Leon, Moscow resident – and KGB officer. She is given a simple mission: to find a missing scientist of high value to the Soviet space programme.
She navigates a retro-future – 1960s Russia is a land of rockets and shortages, a Cold War utopia with a paranoid underbelly – and her search uncovers visionary technologies that shatter the limits of humanity and longevity.
Marina is sacrificed and reborn as Kosmonaut Zero – a body sculpted from flesh and metal, controlled by drugs and a primitive computer interface.
What remains of Marina once she is turned into something designed to exist not on Earth, but in deep space?
Kosmonaut Zero – extracts online
You can now read exclusive extracts of the new novel at the Dead Ink site.
