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It is the far future. The artificial intelligences created by humanity are now gods, and mankind mere ants who scrabble in their shadows across a million worlds.
The Lords of the Great Houses on the ever-night Moon of Hexator are suspected of the murder of one of their own. And merchant William Roxley, once a magistrate-priest, is unwillingly coopted to uncover the truth behind the killings.
With only the help of his naive young assistant and a brutish robot bodyguard, the man they call 'Sweet William' digs into the Moon's eerie existence. A collapsing society where many strange, terrible things are happening under night's unsettling cover.
Hexator is a place where nothing is what it seems, perhaps not even William Roxley himself!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other science fiction authors, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury.
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REVIEWS
Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels:
'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.'
— THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.'
— TOM HOLT
'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.'
— DAILY MAIL
'Compulsive reading for all ages.'
— GUARDIAN
'Studded with invention.'
— THE INDEPENDENT
'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.'
— THE TIMES
