Echo Cycle
โ Scribed by Patrick Edwards
- Publisher
- Titan Books (UK)
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1785658824
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โฆ Synopsis
****Gladiatormeets 1984in this near-future thriller featuring timeslips, ancient magic and a disturbingly plausible dystopian Britain...
One day, a boy fell down a hole in time and banged his head. When he woke up he met the Emperor Nero, who promptly killed himself.
2070. A dozen English public schoolboys on a school trip to Rome in a prosperous and technologically advanced Europe worlds away from a post-Brexit Britain marred by food shortages, poverty and a totalitarian state. Outsider Miliband Monk is captivated by the gleaming metropolis, and desperate to stay out of the way of his tormentors, who bully him for his sexuality in ultra-conservative Britain, and longs for what he sees as the liberal utopia of modern Europe. When a life-changing shock leads him to pound a bullying classmate and dramatically injure him, and Monk flees into the city, and vanishes completely.
Twenty-five years later, Monk's best friend Banks...
โฆ Subjects
Time Travel
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