Synopsis
Inception meets Blade Runner in Boris Hansen's sci-fi fantasy thriller, about a team of agents tasked with solving a mystery from the world of books that suddenly finds its way into reality and threatens to turn the world as we know it upside down.
In the fourth and final volume of the Silent Worlds series, Olivia finally realises the full extent of cult leader Elsa Kavanaugh's plans for fiction technology - and Olivia's only weapon in the battle for the future of humanity and fiction is a desperate plan that demands more of her team than ever before, and could end up costing her everything.
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.’
