At Utopia's Core

FINALIST in the Killer Nashville Claymore Award

LONGLISTED for the Yeovil Literary Prize

"Entirely excellent." – Gary Gibson, author of Stealing Light

"Brave and ingenious." – Simon Ings, author of Headlong

Jorella and Aboiye Ngoco live in a LUSH, COMPASSIONATE WORLD WITHOUT HATRED OR INEQUALITY. All due to humanity’s greatest achievement: Strictures of the Human Condition. A book of principles thousands of years in the making.

However, Jorella and Aboiye LIVE IN FEAR. For the last twenty years, Earth has lived under the threat of an alien species whose motivations and technologies seem utterly incomprehensible. The devoted couple are researching binary stars when humanity’s greatest fears come true.

But Jorella and Aboiye ARE BEING DECEIVED. Humanity has become the unwitting focus of an alien social experiment, conducted by Speaker of Impulsive Conclusions. A being of immense technological power. It plans to demonstrate that humanity holds the key to preventing its own species’ extinction.

And Jorella and Aboiye WILL WITNESS ITS DETERMINATION FIRST-HAND.