Project Hanuman
Published on 11. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-915998-94-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Arcology is a pan galactic utopia whose people live entirely online. Tired of paradise, Praveenthi 'Prab' Saal had herself printed into the physical world of Sirajah's Reach, working as an Interlocutor - a go-between for the Arcology and the cultures it meets in flesh and blood.
One evening after a call with her family - who are pressuring her to abandon her body and rejoin the Arcology - the city stops completely. Nothing electronic works anymore. Terrified that the Arcology has just up and disappeared, she receives a call for help from a ship in dock whose pilot, Kercher, is a prisoner printed into a body to serve out his sentence in the physical world. Between them they discover it's not just her planet, but the entire Arcology that's gone missing. If they don't find out what's going on it could be the end of everyone and everything that calls the Arcology home.
Their only resource is their living ship, into which all the knowledge and culture of the Arcology has been downloaded. Asked to be a life raft for the Arcology, the ship, a frigate without a name, is dying - slowly being swallowed whole by the literal universe of information it's been asked to carry. Prab and Kercher will need to put aside their dislike of each other and the Arcology if they're to help their ship and save anything at all. Can they restore the possibility of hope to their lives?
One evening after a call with her family - who are pressuring her to abandon her body and rejoin the Arcology - the city stops completely. Nothing electronic works anymore. Terrified that the Arcology has just up and disappeared, she receives a call for help from a ship in dock whose pilot, Kercher, is a prisoner printed into a body to serve out his sentence in the physical world. Between them they discover it's not just her planet, but the entire Arcology that's gone missing. If they don't find out what's going on it could be the end of everyone and everything that calls the Arcology home.
Their only resource is their living ship, into which all the knowledge and culture of the Arcology has been downloaded. Asked to be a life raft for the Arcology, the ship, a frigate without a name, is dying - slowly being swallowed whole by the literal universe of information it's been asked to carry. Prab and Kercher will need to put aside their dislike of each other and the Arcology if they're to help their ship and save anything at all. Can they restore the possibility of hope to their lives?
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Watkins Media Limited
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915998-94-1 (9781915998941)
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Stewart Hotston lives in Reading, UK. With a Celtic-Indian mother and a father of North African/Roma descent, Stewart is a somewhat confused second-generation immigrant living in the UK. When he's not writing he can be found working as a financier in the City of London. Beyond that rather questionable career choice, he is treasurer for the British Fantasy Society and a Councillor for the BSFA. A lifelong roleplayer and LARPer he is also a happy long-distance runner with a PhD in theoretical physics. Oh, and he has a dangerously fanatical love for ice cream, sword fighting and Studio Ghibli. Feel free to ask him why Porco Rosso is the best.