Extremophile
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2025
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Extremophile
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Ian Green
Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London.
They pay for the beer they don't steal with money from their sketchy astronomy site Zodiac Code, while Charlie's bio-bespoke augments equip the criminals, punks, and eco-warriors of London. They have to deal with disgruntled clients, scene kids who don’t dig their band, and a city that's run by corporates and criminals. Their world is split into three factions: Green – who are still trying to save the world; Blue – who try to profit while they can, and Black – who see no hope left.
When a group of extremist Green activists hire them for a series of jobs ranging from robbery to murder, Charlie – who struggles to feel anything except Black – wants to walk away. But Parker still believes they can make a difference, and urges her to accept.
As they enter an escalating biological arms race against faceless corporations, amoral biohackers, and criminal cyberpunks, Charlie will have to choose what she believes in. Is there still hope, and does she have a right to grab it?©2024 Ian Green (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A radical, explosive story full of wild hope and venomous rage. Its near future apocalypse is not just prescient and subversive, but full of life, love and thrill in a way that makes it only breaths away from the world we are now. Its voice is challenging, unrelenting, and veering between heartbreak and humour. I feel like this book was written for me, specifically, but I know it’s for us. All of us. With its queer community, found family, the dilemmas of resistance and the agony of survival, Extremophile was a song to my soul and a punch in the gut. Read it. (Hannah Kaner)
Absolute dirty-nailed cutting-edge biopunk. A world you can taste like a film of grime on the tongue. Phenomenally imaginative. (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
A thrilling ride, full of invention and excitement (Josie Long)
The novel is clear-eyed about the peril our planet faces, but leavens the mood with a sparky, iconoclastic energy
An electric charge of anger animates this gripping novel
[I can] see this taking its place in a future classics list of 21st century SF (Arthur C. Clarke, judging panel)
Extremophile is a pure shot of literary adrenaline - achingly smart, gritty, funny and a hell of a lot of fun. Green’s background in genetic research elevates his portrait of a biohacking-addicted near-future London into a compelling and deeply plausible experience. Viscerally dark but full of hope, with characters who stay with you long after the last page, it’s an explosive joyride through our wildest impulses and darkest fears. Cyberpunk brought thrillingly up to date - absolutely brilliant. (Molly Flatt)
Gibson deep fried in solar panels. (Arthur C. Clarke, judging panel)
Vivid, visceral and utterly compelling, Extremophile blasts new life into the cyberpunk genre. A heady mash-up of biology, punk, art, activism, hackers, murky morality and ultimately, hope, it had me hooked from the first page to the last. (Stark Holborn)
An impassioned, compulsive riot. Imagine an upstart William Gibson setting a thriller amid the punk parties, bio-hack labs and liminal spaces of near-future London. (Jamie Collinson)
A fast-paced action story full of violence, humour and smarts, Extremophile is also about grief, loss, hope and the climate catastrophe. Cyberpunk may be old hat, but BIOPUNX NOT DEAD! ... A cracking, action-packed slice of near future SF full of bio-hacking, punk rock and an overheating London. It also has much more depth and heart than you might imagine from that description. (Will Ashon)
Beautiful violence, beautifully told
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Irritating and one tone internal dialogue style of writing that I assume is intended to portray the zeitgeist of the new and rapidly disintegrating world. It grates after not very long and must be virtually impossible to read in hard text.
Characters are universally, one dimensionally, good or narcissistically evil or older people who do not quite get how f***ing cool the protagonists are.
The uber cool violence is…slightly dull and feels derivative.
The central conceit of a preternaturally gifted bio-hacker, programmer and punk bass player and her love story becomes preternaturally boring and repetitive as she makes poor decisions, plays tight punk gigs and creates hippy/dippy BioWare for astral new age global citizens and oh yes might save the world with a weed.
It’s just never quite a cool as it clearly thinks it ought to be. What’s more it smacks of slightly older YA fiction and is trying way too hard to be down with the kids.
It’s perfectly fine if you like this kind of thing and the performance deserves a medal for being able to verbalise the intensely choppy prose style.
Choppy Cyber Punk
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The narration was easy on the ears, and distinguished between characters without being OTT.
Heavy but good
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superb characters, science outstanding, geographically perfect
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