Synopsis
Inception meets Blade Runner in Boris Hansen's sci-fi fantasy thriller, set in a near future where you can travel into books as if they were physical realities - and change them from the inside.
In The False Lives, the line between reality and fiction is blurring. Olivia Alby and her team search across worlds to solve the mystery of a mission gone wrong with impossible consequences - all while being haunted by the secrets of the past and a fictional killer who has escaped into reality.
Winner of the Best Fantasy Novel of 2023 Award.
Reviews
"The Danish Fantasy Book of the Year is a work that is truly well thought out. The characters are strong, have depth, and they have to take a stand on big philosophical questions. The plot is breathtaking, and feels like a binge-worthy TV series that takes the reader through the entire emotional spectrum. The original premise is so well executed that we wish we could travel inside The False Lives." – (Danish Fantasy Festival - prize committee)
Personal note from the author
‘The Silent Worlds series is my take on an intense suspense series with a unique twist, because literature is used as a meta-layer, playground and battlefield,’
Were you inspired by real events when you came up with the plot of the Silent Worlds series?
‘If this series had been written ten years ago, it would have been different. Now it's hard to write a science fiction story set in our near future without at least recognising climate change, for example.’
‘When you're also writing a story where culture has literally become a battlefield, it's also hard not to consider the anti-democratic currents of the time and the potential of misinformation when you think about what would actually happen if you could travel into stories and change them.’
He himself would travel into the sci-fi classic 1984 by George Orwell if he could choose. And what would he change?
‘At the very end, I would buy Winston Smith a cake or a teddy bear.’
