The Restoration Game (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616145255)

There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know--she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: a game inspired by The Krassniad, an epic folk tale concocted by Lucy's mother, Amanda, who studied there in the 1980s. Lucy knows Amanda is a spook. She knows her great-grandmother Eugenie also visited the country in the 1930s and met the man who originally collected Krassnian folklore, and who perished in Stalin's terror. As Lucy digs up details about her birthplace to slot into the game, she finds the open secrets of her family's past, the darker secrets of Krassnia's past--and hints about the crucial role she is destined to play in The Restoration Game. Combining international intrigue with cutting-edge philosophical speculation, romance with adventure, and online gaming with real-life consequences, this book delivers as science fiction and as a sharp take on our present world from the viewpoint of a complex, engaging heroine who has to fight her way through a maze of political and family manipulation to take control of her own life.

Author: Ken MacLeod
ISBN-10: 1616145250
ISBN-13: 9781616145255
Publisher: Start-Viva
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2011
Pages: 259
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.17w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/25/2011
Library Journal 09/15/2011 pg. 56
Asimov's Science Fiction 11/01/2012 pg. 183