Edge - Softcover
You thought Big Brother was tough? Try Knife Edge – the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell.
Britain, tomorrow. The ultimate response to knife crime has been instituted by a bankrupt government: duelling with knives has now been legalised. On Saturday nights, the nation sit down to watch the countries best fighters slash it out on prime time.
When a young boy with hoplophobia (the fear of weaponry) runs away from home, his father hires a former special forces agent to find him. With the help of the boy’s psychiatrist, Josh Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country with no guarantee that the boy is even still alive...
FILE UNDER: Future Thriller [Reality TV/ Slashed jugulars / Apocalyptic weather / Save the children]
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You thought Big Brother was tough? Try Knife Edge -- the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell.
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“John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again.”
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“John Meaney has rewired SF. Everything is different now.”
- Stephen Baxter
“Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world...”
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“...one of British science fiction’s most original and exciting practitioners.”
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“Is it good? Of course it is. Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world at the moment, and he doesn't put a foot wrong here.”
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- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0007349718
- ISBN 13 9780007349715
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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