Matthew De Abaitua'snovelThe Red Menwas shortlisted for the Arthur
C Clarke Award and adapted into a short film 'Dr Easy' by Shynola
and produced by Film4/Warp Films.His science fiction novelsIF
THEN(Angry Robot, September 2015) andThe Destructives(Angry Robot,
2016) complete the loose trilogy begun withThe Red Men.His bookSelf
& I- A Memoir of Literary Ambition(Eye Books, 2018) was widely
reviewed in the national press, chosen as a Financial Times Summer
Read and described by The Times Literary Supplement as "a
compelling reminiscence".He teaches creative writing and science
fiction at the University of Essex and lives in Hackney.
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“It’s a work that doesn’t so much subvert expectations as shatter
them utterly. It’s dense, but it also moves; it’s both a
breakneck thriller and one of the year’s most thoughtful works
of science fiction.”
– B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
“Matthew De Abaitua has the knack of delivering the most complex of
concepts and diabolical leaps of imagination in a way that first
entices then completely draws the reader in. A thrilling
book.”
– Strange Alliances
“A marvellously written book, whose invention and surprises gain
momentum until its boggler of an ending.”
– SFX Magazine
“The story is set against a detailed background that blends
creative imagination with intelligent prediction to arrive at a
credible future. From designer drugs to shopping malls that double
as asylums, from obsessive data tracking to floating offshore
habitats for the wealthy, the future depicted here is a credible
offshoot of current trends.”
– Tzer Island
“A distinctive and grand work of the imagination. You don’t
need a VR headset to appreciate this work of art, just eyes and a
brain.”
– The Generalist
“The Destructives is as successful as its predecessor and
together they make one of the most intriguing and disturbing
near-future speculations published for some years.”
– Strange Horizons
“J. G. Ballard does John Varley, or David Marusek by way of M. John
Harrison, with frostings of Philip K. Dick and Peter Watts… De
Abaitua’s novel gives us a portrait of an utterly foreign yet
believable future.”
– Asimov’s Science Fiction (print)
“The Destructives is well written and of superior construction, and
the ideas De Abaitua grapples with in this novel – the nature of
artificial intelligence, the endgame of global capitalism, the
eternal mismatch between material prosperity and emotional
fulfilment – are compelling and attention-worthy. That De Abaitua
navigates the often abstruse territory of his particular science
fiction without once sacrificing the predominantly literary values
of formal coherence or linguistic suppleness is yet more testament
to his skill, not just as a writer but as a thinker.”
– Nina Allan, for The Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science
Fiction and Fantasy
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