Lambda
Book description
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…
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Released earlier this year by the great Europa Press, this book is one of the best sci-fi novels I’ve ever read.
The story, set in near-future England, concerns a group of semi-aquatic beings, genetically related to humans but very different from us, physically and socially. Nobody knows where they come from, washed up eventually on the UK shore, but their presence causes fear, hostility, and, finally, tragedy and violence.
I described it to someone in an email as being like JG Ballard and William Gibson had a baby; I actually don't know how I'd even review Lambda; it's that much…
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