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 third volume of Silent Worlds, three different parties battle to solve the mystery of the Book of Nightmares - a fiction that will soon open up in the Current, potentially giving unlimited power to whoever finds it first.
Both Olivia's team of fiction agents and serial killer, Victor, are participants in a fateful race to figure out what kind of book it is and what the explanation is for the glowing ghost, seemingly calling for help from within the fiction.
Winner of the Best Fantasy Novel of the 2024 Award.
Reviews
"To win a Saga award for Danish Fantasy Book of the Year requires that you have written a quality work that blows readers away. That there are exciting characters and a clear plot. All of this can be said about this year's winner. We can also say that it is a book that points out our world and comments on book burnings, radical religion and corrupt politics. It is stylish, funny and a fantastic reading experience." – (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.’
