Tidelands is an ongoing sci-fi and fantasy serial. Below are details and media assets for Part 1: Ghosts and Monsters.
BOOK DETAILS
Title: Tidelands, Part 1: Ghosts and Monsters
Author: Gareth J. Southwell
Genre: science-fiction/fantasy
Publisher: WoodPig Press
Publication date: 4th July 2024
Pages: 156
Formats: paperback and ebook
Paperback dimensions: 5″ x 8″
ISBN (paperback): 9781068692307
ISBN (ebook): 9781739300586
Price: £7.99/$8.99/€8.99 (paperback); £2.99/$3.99/€3.99 (ebook)
BOOK DESCRIPTION
In a flooded city, the arcology provides a high-tech haven – for those who can afford it.
Here, safe in her pampered confinement, Eva longs for escape. But each day she is made to play The Game, a curious virtual environment that seems more designed to monitor and test than to entertain.
For those outside, life is a struggle for survival, battling climate change and a society on the brink of collapse, where unregulated technology runs amok, spawning genetic monsters, robotic nightmares and digital ghosts.
Here, Squirrel is a memory thief, eking out a fraught existence in service to the criminal gangs that trade in illicit gene hacks, blackmarket augments and – her speciality – stolen secrets.
But Squirrel has strange skills she doesn’t know she possesses, and when they uncover a secret that some very bad people would do anything to keep hidden, her only chance at escape leads to the arcology itself, to Eva, and the answers no one wants them to learn.
Tidelands is an ongoing sci-fi and fantasy serial. Set some years in the future, it is a dystopian blend of cyberpunk, first contact, dark humour and Lovecraftian horror. Part 1: Ghosts & Monsters collects together instalments 1–17.
REVIEWS
“An immersive, entertaining and clever piece of Science Fiction!” – Doctor Who Online
“Masterly combines Sci-Fi, mystery, suspense, danger, hardship and decadence in a dystopia in the near future” – Amazon review, 5 stars
“Not normally my genres, Tidelands kept me reading with twists, turns, and rollercoaster gravitational drops; beautiful writing with bits of humor; villains with faintly Dickensian resemblance; a Harry-Potterish catalogue of fantastical/horrible creatures; and damsels in distress, marshalling their wits against the human, natural and technological threats that may lie ahead for us all.” – Goodreads review, 5 stars
“This was such a good read.” – Goodreads review, 5 stars
LIBRARIES, RETAILERS AND SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
Paperback and ebook copies are available direct from the publisher, or from a range of distributors, retailers and subscription services in the US, UK, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Asia.
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REVIEW COPIES
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MEDIA IMAGES
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gareth Southwell is a writer, illustrator and philosopher who lives in South Wales in the UK.
He’s been involved with philosophy for over thirty years, is the author of numerous books on the subject, and has a PhD on the topic of “death” (which has been read by exactly four people, including himself).
His sci-fi/fantasy novels are just a thinly fictionalised version of his PhD thesis, with most of the boring bits taken out and replaced with robots and people swearing in Welsh.
Aside from all that, he designs and illustrates books for a living.
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He can also be found on BlueSky.