Polostan

Neal Stephenson

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Hardback

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The Borough Press
01 January 2025

Espionage & spy thriller; Historical fiction

Series: Bomb Light

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.

Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-Revolution Leningrad by her father, a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora.

She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gun-running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C. during the depths of the Great Depression.

When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB…

Set against the turbulent decades of the early 20th century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.

By: Neal Stephenson
Imprint: The Borough Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Book 1
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9780008262594
ISBN 10: 0008262594
Series: Bomb Light
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

NEAL STEPHENSON is the author of: Fall or, Dodge in Hell; The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland); Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line.

Reviews for Polostan

Praise for Neal Stephenson: 'He makes reading so much fun it feels like a deadly sin' New York Times ‘Stephenson’s reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved’ Sunday Times ‘Ingenious and sometimes prophetic’ Telegraph '[A] speculative-fiction virtuoso' Booklist 'Stephenson excels in marrying geek-speak with riotous action' Guardian