Extremophile: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD Indian Cooking Writing with a novelist's command

Writing with a novelist's command of narrative and a historian's grasp of fact and motive

and command with respect and love

no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt

the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed

With acute social insight

Extremophile: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD Indian Cooking Writing with a novelist's commandCharlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near future climate collapse London. They pay for the beer they don't steal with money from their sketchy astronomy site Zodiac Code, while Charlie's bio bespoke augments equip the criminals, punks, and eco warriors of London. They have to deal with disgruntled clients, scene kids who don't dig their band, and a city that's run by corporates and criminals.