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Lambda / David Musgrave.

by Musgrave, David, 1973-

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Europa Editions, 2022.

Technology -- Social aspects -- Fiction.

Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction.

Policewomen -- Fiction.

Bombings -- Fiction.

9781609457648 (trade pbk.)

345 p. ; 21 cm.

"A novel"--cover.

Whoever the lambdas might be, and wherever they really come from, they're already here among us. Outwardly alien arrivals from a distant sea, the lambdas are genetically human. They slip quietly into low-to-middle-income jobs and appear to want nothing more than to be left alone. For Cara Gray, they are first a haunting presence in her otherwise ordinary childhood, then the inscrutable target of her police surveillance work. When a bomb goes off at a school, a nebulous group of lambda extremists claims responsibility for the attack-but how could a vulnerable community of tiny aquatic humans, barely visible in society and seemingly indifferent to their own exploitation, be capable of something so horrific? In Cara's world a toothbrush can be legally alive, a quantum computer has the power to decide who dies, and a government employee made of slime mould protein needs help to relieve his neuroses. As Cara's relationship with the lambdas deepens, she must decide whether to accept her place in a pattern of technology, violence and deceit, or to take action of her own.

Science fiction.

Literary fiction.

Dystopian fiction.

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