The Hope Five miles long and one mile high, carrying a million passengers to a new and promised land, the good ship Hope was the fulfilment of a philanthropist’s dream. Yet a generation later, land has not been sighted, rust cakes her gigantic hull, in the bowels sinister creatures proliferate and her motley human cargo dance, degenerate or die.
With dazzling imagination and blackest humour, James Lovegrove creates an unforgettable vision of a society that has lost its way. ‘Blood courses through the book like a river in spate, but it is attribute to Lovegrove’s writing that it is always held within the banks of credibility. Lovegrove’s controlled writing – the words accurate as an assassin’s bullets – is the book’s best argument against the anarchy of the unleashed future that is depicted so vividly in this first and fierce effort’ Sunday Times
`Lovegrove scores best by making all his major characters believable . . . [He] compels such belief by a combination of detailed visual imagination, meticulous concern for the language and the wit to harness the two constructively.’ Interzone
`James Lovegrove’s sharply observed details have the authority of good science fiction’ Times Literary Supplement
`Lovegrove has a superb and subtle eye for character detail’ Infinity Plus
‘Lovegrove’s style is clever and literate’ SFX
The Hope
The Hope