The Accord
Title | The Accord |
Year for Search | 2009 |
Authors | Brooke, Keith [N.](b. 1966) |
Date Published | 2009 |
Publisher | Solaris. BL Publishing |
Place Published | Nottingham, Eng. |
Keywords | English author, Male author |
Annotation | The Accord is a virtual world that brings together all the desires of all people throughout the world and can be entered at death. It is presented as a eutopia for all. The current world is an authoritarian dystopia, and the novel is driven by the desire of the authoritarian leader to destroy a couple in The Accord. |
Additional Publishers | Parts were published in a different form as “The Accord.” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Ed. George Mann (Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris Books, 2007), 301-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 461-79 with an editor’s introduction on 461; and “The Man Who Built Heaven.” Postscripts, no. 15 (Summer 2008): 24-31. |
Author Note | (b. 1966) |
Full Text | 2009 Brooke, Keith [N.] (b. 1966). The Accord. Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris. BL Publishing, 2009. Parts were published in a different form as “The Accord.” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Ed. George Mann (Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris Books, 2007), 301-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 461-79 with an editor’s introduction on 461; and “The Man Who Built Heaven.” Postscripts, no. 15 (Summer 2008): 24-31. The Accord is a virtual world that brings together all the desires of all people throughout the world and can be entered at death. It is presented as a eutopia for all. The current world is an authoritarian dystopia, and the novel is driven by the desire of the authoritarian leader to destroy a couple in The Accord. |