Dark Eden Books In Order
- Dark Eden (2012)
- Mother of Eden (2015)
- Daughter of Eden (2016)
Alexanders Legacy Books In Order
- Two Tribes (2020)
Novels
- The Holy Machine (2004)
- Marcher (2009)
- America City (2017)
- Beneath the World, a Sea (2019)
- Tomorrow (2021)
Collections
- The Turing Test (2008)
- The Peacock Cloak (2013)
- Spring Tide (2018)
- Stories of Hope and Wonder (2020)
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Chris Beckett Books Overview
The Holy Machine
Illyria is a scientific utopia, an enclave of logic and reason founded off the Greek coast in the mid twenty first century as a refuge from the Reaction, a wave of religious fundamentalism sweeping the planet. Yet to George Simling, first generation son of a former geneticist who was left emotionally and psychically crippled by the persecution she encountered in her native Chicago, science dominated Illyria is becoming as closed minded and stifling as the religion dominated world outside…
The Holy Machine is Chris Beckett’s first novel. As well as being a story about love, adventure and a young man learning to mature and face the world, it deals with a question that is all too easily forgotten or glibly answered in science fiction: what happens to the soul, to beauty, to morality, in the absence of God?
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