Proof of Concept [Paperback]

Proof of Conceptis an action-adventure science fiction novella from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Gwyneth Jones.

On a desperately overcrowded future Earth, crippled by climate change, the most unlikely hope is better than none. Governments turn to Big Science to provide them with the dreams that will keep the masses compliant. The Needle is one such dream, an installation where the most abstruse theoretical science is being tested: science that might make human travel to a habitable exoplanet distantly feasible.

When the Needles director offers her underground compound as a training base, Kir is thrilled to be invited to join the team, even though she knows its only because her brain is host to a quantum artificial intelligence called Altair.

But Altair knows something he cant tell.

Kir, like all humans, is programmed to ignore future dangers. Between the artificial blocks in his mind, and the blocks evolution has built into his host, how is he going to convince her the sky is falling?

GWYNETH JONES is a writer and critic of genre fiction. She's won the Tiptree award, two World Fantasy awards, the Arthur C. Clarke award, the British Science Fiction Association short story award, the Dracula Society's Children of the Night award, the Philip K. Dick award, and the S.F.R.A. Pilgrim award for lifetime achievement in sf criticism. She also writes for teenagers, usually as Ann Halam.

She lives in Brighton, UK, with her husband and two cats called Ginger and Milo; curating assorted pondlife in season.

Proof of Conceptis proof that Gwyneth Jones is an international treasure. If she writes it, you need to read itthat's all you need to know. Pat Cadigan, Hugo and Clarke Award-winning author ofSynners.

Proof of Conceptby Gwyneth Jones is deeply unsettling and utterly transcendent. Kathleen Ann Goonan, Campbell Award-winning author of the Nanotech trilogy

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