A thought-provoking novel about how humans define themselves, and each other, and what that means for our future. From an Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author.Brilliantly and chillingly imaginedA wise and frequently shaming portrait of our own time ...
explored with wit, thoughtfulness and emotional weightRead this for his mordant dissection of tribalism - why the sense of belonging can become so desperately destructive.
Two Tribes holds up a mirror to our fractured times, stripping away the shallow concerns of contemporary politics with razor-sharp observations.
Bursting with brilliantly thought-provoking ideas on almost every page,
Two Tribes is one of these rare novels that
leaves you looking at the world in a new way.
A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with
a deft hand.
Beckett is
superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads
like Conrad's Heart of Darkness reimagined by JG Ballard.
Eden is building into one of most
vivid and fascinating places in modern SF.
A
captivating and haunting book
Chris Beckett is a former university lecturer and social worker. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, 2009, for The Turing Test, the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, for Dark Eden, and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association best novel award for Mother of Eden in 2015 and for Daughter of Eden in 2016. Two Tribes is his eighth novel.
www.chris-beckett.com