The Ends (The Anomaly Quartet, Book 4)

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Join an awe-inspiring journey through a world where death has stopped in the finale of James Smythes acclaimed Anomaly Quartet.
Decades ago, a vast object called the Anomaly was discovered moving through space. Missions sent to explore it found that anyone entering the Anomaly was unable to die. It kept moving, across our solar system, until finally the Anomaly enveloped Earth.

Thirty years later, on the West Coast of the US, Theo hears that his missing wife has been sighted in London. Hes sick, and getting worse, so he sets off to find her.

Theos quest will take him across continents, through abandoned cities and new communities, meeting with bandits, artists, and cultists, murderers and heroes and survivors.

Because this is a world of humanity at its absolute worst, and at its very best.

A world where everything has been irrevocably altered, yet somehow still remains the same.

Reviews

Reviews of the Explorer:

It's like an episode of Star Trek written by JM Coetzee Guardian

The Explorer has the dreamlike detachment of an Ishiguro novel Financial Times

Beautifully written, creepy as hell. The Explorer is as clever in its unravelling as it is breathlessly claustrophobic Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

As you marvel at this twist-laden deep-space exploration thriller, its hard not to draw comparisons with Duncan Jones film Moon Shortlist

A fascinating character study that could only exist in a science-fictional world io9.com

'The SF novel everyone should read' Foyles

Author Bio

James Smythe is the winner of the Wales Fiction Book of the Year 2013, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2014. He is the author of The Testimony, The Machine and No Harm Can Come To A Good Man, as well as The Anomaly Quartet, which currently includes the novels The Explorer and The Echo. James lives in London and teaches creative writing. He can be found on Twitter @jpsmythe