Twenty-five years in the future, and our planet is facing a natural Armageddon that threatens all life on Earth - Professor Jim Al-Khalili combines rip-roaring storytelling and mind-expanding science in his debut thriller.
Jim Al-Khalili OBE FRS is a quantum physicist, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey where he holds a joint chair in physics and the public engagement in science. He has written ten books, translated into over twenty languages. He is a regular presenter of TV science documentaries and also presents the long-running weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific. A recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal, the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal and the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, he is also the current president of the British Science Association. He received an OBE in 2007 for 'services to science' and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2018. Sunfall is his first novel. Jim Al-Khalili lives in Hampshire.
Excellent, exactly how good science fiction should be: gripping
story, beautifully told, while at the same time being
scientifically well-informed.
*PROFESSOR RICHARD DAWKINS*
Reminiscent of vintage Arthur C. Clarke . . . has a chilling,
nail-biting authenticity.
*FINANCIAL TIMES*
The Day After Tomorrow meets Neuromancer . . . When the planet's
magnetic field fails, the naked sun threatens to deliver an
extinction level event now – and every century – unless a high-tech
near future humanity can save itself. Sunfall is sizzling stuff.
And the best informed techno-thriller you are ever likely to
read.
*STEPHEN BAXTER, author of the Xeelee sequence*
With its well-crafted world-building, cutting-edge science, and
believable, engaging characters caught in a desperate race to stave
off the end of the world, this fast-paced near-future thriller is
an impressive debut novel from one of our foremost science
communicators. Brilliant!
*Professor IAN STEWART, co-author of The Science of Discworld
series*
A thrilling futuristic page-turner of a novel in which the future
of science, and the technology that underpins it, is as gripping as
the plot.
*Professor MARK MIODOWNIK, author of Stuff Matters*
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