Conundra

By A.E. Currie

Deal Ends: 2025-05-24

An entertaining, page-turning, and genre-bending thriller set in a futuristic Britain. A year after the events of Utopia Five, Lee Sands receives a surprise from brother Nemo: a holiday in the resort of Conundra - the only civilised place on Earth outside the observation of the Panopticon. Moments after arrival, Lee witnesses the assassination of a woman and receives an invitation to the office of the Warlock of Conundra - the founder and controller of the city. Was the death real or just part of Conundra’s network of storylines? When Nemo reveals that Panopticon citizens are disappearing and those disappearances seem to be linked to both Conundra and Lee and Nemo’s virtual worlds, the pair are plunged into the mystery of a missing man Lee knows only too well. With the help of a sinister transhuman technocult, Lee and Nemo race to uncover the secret of the founding of Conundra and their own role in the corruption of the state. “The only series I've read that touches on every topic I care about: Artificial Intelligence, surveillance, climate change, individual vs state, space, programming, infosec” - Marco Abis Conundra is a gripping science fiction thriller set in a high-surveillance future. It is both a standalone action novel and the second in the Panopticon series. Praise for the Panopticon series “I loved this book” - James Cox, reviewer Amazon ”an unexpectedly deep and conceptual sci-fi techno thriller. Take all the moral quandaries of modern technology and give them a mix with ecological disaster and you've got yourself a good idea of the future this book is set in” - OldBird, Amazon “Thought-provoking on the world today and future - couldn’t put it down!” - J Collins, Amazon ”The author writes some compelling characters and reveals a near future which asks what happens if some of the things we see today get turned up to 11” - Neville White, Amazon “Full of innovative and thought-provoking ideas. Story was engaging and fast-paced” Jon, Amazon “all too believable picture of one possible (probable?) future” - NIck B, Amazon “a page-turning thriller, and shot through with mordant humour” - PJ Barber, Amazon “Great fast paced story backed with a lot of detail and a huge amount of thought about how the world might develop!” - Mark Mitchell, Amazon “Kept me hooked throughout” - Amazon Customer “Nice to read such an original book. I couldn’t put it down” - SgravenHage, Amazon US “A thought provoking and intelligently written sci-fi novel that I couldn’t put down” Nikki, Amazon “A fun read, compelling world, great premise” O, Amazon Read more