Intrusion

Description

Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child. Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four-year-old, is expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn child? A plausible and original novel with sinister echoes of 1984 and Brave New World.

Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full-time.

This near-future sci-fi novel could almost be a sequel to George Orwell's 1984 - 2084, perhaps -- THE SUN A steely, brilliant piece of work -- DAILY TELEGRAPH Ken MacLeod is the modern day George Orwell -- SFX Stylish, witty, and engaging! -- SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE Far more fun than deep space drama has any right to be...Just read the book. Then read it again. It's even better the second time. -- SFX Exciting...Accessible to the average reader as well as the hardcore SF fan. This is a work sure to keep the reader on the edge of her seat. -- ROMANTIC TIMES BOOKCLUB Insightful and ingenious . . . Intrusion is both horrific and comic, and deals movingly with the consequences of genetic fixes * GUARDIAN * A steely, brilliant piece of work * DAILY TELEGRAPH *