The Peace Machine
Published on 31. May 2018
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-78227-394-3 (ISBN)
Description
We'll create a machine. A peace machine that will put an end to all wars.
As the twentieth century dawns the world stands on the brink of yet another bloody war. But what if conflict were not inevitable? What if a machine could exploit the latest developments in electromagnetic science to influence people's minds? And what if such a machine could put an end to violence for ever?
The search for the answer to these questions will lead our hero Celal away from his unassuming life as an Istanbul-based writer of erotic fiction, and on a quest across a continent stumbling headlong towards disaster, from Istanbul to Paris and Belgrade, as he struggles to uncover the mystery of The Peace Machine before time runs out for humanity.
As the twentieth century dawns the world stands on the brink of yet another bloody war. But what if conflict were not inevitable? What if a machine could exploit the latest developments in electromagnetic science to influence people's minds? And what if such a machine could put an end to violence for ever?
The search for the answer to these questions will lead our hero Celal away from his unassuming life as an Istanbul-based writer of erotic fiction, and on a quest across a continent stumbling headlong towards disaster, from Istanbul to Paris and Belgrade, as he struggles to uncover the mystery of The Peace Machine before time runs out for humanity.
Reviews / Votes
A rollicking Ottoman steampunk adventure - full of wit, tongue-twisters and roguish escapism * Guardian * A darkly funny absurdist romp * SFX * A picaresque debut * Financial Times, Summer Books of 2018 * OEzguer Mumcu is one of the most essential voices writing in Turkey today and his novel, The Peace Machine, is a literary achievement as stunning as the very invention in its title * Elliot Ackerman, National Book Award Finalist and author of Dark at the Crossing * A splendid Jules Verne-esque novel * Hurriyet * A rich novel weaving real historical events... with murders to be solved and mysteries to be investigated! * Agos * We discuss the idea of war and peace all the time and we live in the Middle East where it feels like the peace will never come. Now you have published a book called The Peace Machine, in 2016, when everyone is busy talking about war * Journo.com.tr * Moves at a rattling pace * Radikal Kitap * Five novels' worth of invention in one. Clever. Funny. * Tibor Fischer, author of Under the Frog * A carnivalesque slice of Ottoman steampunk, taking readers from Istanbul to the heart of Europe in the early 1900s. Full of ideas, enthusiasm and gusto, the novel sweeps from Istanbul to Paris to Belgrade in the years before the outbreak of the First World War -- William Armstrong * Hurriyet *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78227-394-3 (9781782273943)
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OEzguer Mumcu is a Turkish author, free speech activist and journalist working for the Cumhuriyet newspaper in Turkey. In 2016 he accepted a Right Livelihood award on the newspaper's behalf for its "fearless investigative journalism and commitment to freedom of expression in the face of oppression, censorship, imprisonment and death threats". The Peace Machine is his first novel.