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Lambda Paperback – July 12, 2022

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3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
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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. The government has noticed them. So has a whole gamut of extremist groups. Cara Gray has noticed them too, first as a haunting presence in her otherwise ordinary childhood, then as the impossibly shifting target of her work as a police officer.

When a bomb goes off at a school, Cara finds herself the weak point in a surveillance regime that has failed to prevent the worst terrorist atrocity in decades. 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 such a horrific act?

In Cara’s world a family member can be replaced with an app, a police quantum computer has the power to decide who dies, and objects are legally alive. As her relationship with the lambdas deepens, Cara must decide whether to submit to the patterns of technology, violence and obsession, or to take action of her own.

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  4. Publication date
    July 12, 2022
  5. Dimensions
    5.25 x 1 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1609457641
  7. ISBN-13
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“Ever wish George Saunders tried his hand at crime fiction? Try David Musgrave’s imaginative debut novel, Lambda... Original, arresting literary sci-fi.”—Wired

“The novel has an inventive structure, with narrative chapters interspersed with various documents... Novels like this don’t work unless the author fully commits, and Musgrave does.”—Kirkus Reviews

“An imaginative revisioning of some of today’s fears and fantasies, written with bravura style and wit, this is literary SF at its best.”—The Guardian

“Lambda is a riveting novel about human power dynamics that’s set in a world populated by sentient objects and marked by pervasive surveillance.”—Foreword Reviews

About the Author

David Musgrave lives with his family in North London. As a visual artist he has exhibited in major galleries in the UK, the United States and across Europe, and his work is held in many collections worldwide, including those of Tate and MoMA, New York. Musgrave’s short animated film Studio Golem was broadcast on Channel 4, and he continues to exhibit work in diverse media internationally. He has written fiction and non-fiction throughout his creative career, and was nominated for the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize. A committed educator, he teaches Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, where he has established a long-running course on narrative for artists. 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Europa Editions (July 12, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 372 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1609457641
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1609457648
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Lee E Wittham
2.0 out of 5 stars The toothbrush is the most interesting character
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024
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4.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down
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To me, this book offers a "Brave New World/1984 narrative that Is just as terrifying, ironic and prescient as those two books ever were in their time. In Lambda, Musgrave has created a fictional world that is beautiful at exposing the humanity in non-human things. Can't wait to see what the author comes up with next!
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She Treads Softly
3.0 out of 5 stars experimental science fiction novel
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2022
Lambda by David Musgrave is a recommended experimental science fiction novel.

The Lambdas have arrive on the coast by sea. They are aliens but genetically human and now humans coexist with them. They tend to live in flooded basements. New police officer Cara Gray is familiar with the Lambdas from her childhood, and now her job is to keep them under surveillance after a school bombing that a lambda rights group claims responsibility. She is now community liaison officer to the lambda. Now she must decide whether to submit to the patterns of technology, violence and obsession, or to take action of her own.

This is a complicated novel with an inventive structure that includes a one sided conversation with a Lambda as well as Cara's . Within Cara's narrative the novel also addresses the refugee crises and the future of technology. This is an inventive, interesting novel, but it was also a struggle to keep focused on the narrative. Many of the plot elements are left unresolved. It is also humorous at times. This will be thoroughly enjoyed by some science fiction readers but not all of them. This is undoubtedly an odd novel that works in a weir
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Simon bl
2.0 out of 5 stars Aimless
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2022
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Maybe I'm just not bright enough for this type of work, but it just went nowhere. The story threads were interesting enough to keep me going, then it just ends.

IA real let down after a promising start. Definitely not for me.
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Tf
1.0 out of 5 stars Just awful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2022
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The description sounded great, always up for a weird sci-fi novel. After the first chapter I just thought it was written as a robot speaking, then the same style continues and I makes it unreadable. I struggled through thinking it might change but it doesn’t, the story just fumbles along with it’s annoying trend of writing the measurements and scores of everything. I rarely give anything a 1 star review, however I haven’t read anything this bad in a long time, just avoid its awful.
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Mrs. C. M. Bracewell
1.0 out of 5 stars Drivel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2023
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I have no idea what this book was supposed to be about. There seemed to be about 4 threads, none of which were meaningfully connected with each other. None of them seem to lead anywhere, and then the book just stopped. Like a previous reviewer said, maybe I'm too dim to get it. Avoid.
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