The Cassandra Complex

Brian Stableford

Tom Doherty Associates, Mar 7, 2001 - Fiction - 319 pages

This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope, filled with wonders. Set earlier in the same "future history" as Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality, and The Fountains of Youth, The Cassandra Complex is the independent story of events crucial to the creation of the universe in which the others take place. It is the twenty-first century, a world of rapid change and biotech threats and promises. World War Three, the biotech war, is on the horizon and the world as we know it is going to end. The fateful question is, who is going to choose the kind of future that will follow, and who gets to live in this new world to come?

Lisa Frieman, a forensic researcher working for the police, is attacked in her apartment. Jordan Miller, a distinguished scientist with whom Lisa once worked, has disappeared with a secret discovery. But what has he discovered that everyone wants? And why do the thieves, and their remote masters, think that Lisa has any knowledge of the secret Miller guards?

Profound scientific extrapolation combined with riveting suspense make this at once a futuristic thriller and a cutting-edge SF novel. The Cassandra Complex expands the scope of Brian Stableford's growing future history and adds another major accomplishment to his long list of triumphant creations.

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Originally published on my blog here in July 2002. Following his well received trilogy about the search for a way to bring immortality to the human race, Stableford has now written a prequel. The ...

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Brian Stableford lives in Reading, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cassandra Complex; Issue 4 of Emortality Series
• Author: Brian Stableford
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 2001
• ISBN: 0312877730, 9780312877736
• Length: 319 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction