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ISBN 1-85723-376-X (UK pbk, 1996)
novel, science fiction
Far future Earth, rampant nature. First novel.
"There is one city left. And soon that will be gone, for the streets of Kray are crumbling beneath a wave of exotic and lethal vegetation as it creeps south, threatening to wipe out the last traces of humanity. In the desperate struggle for survival, most Krayans live from day to day, awaiting salvation from their goddesses or the government. Only a few believe that the future might lie in their own hands.
"Zinina, having fled from the Citadel, determined to discover what secrets are buried beneath it...
"Arrahaquen, daughter of a member of the all-powerful Red Brigade, whose privileged position makes her insurgency all the more dangerous...
"Graaff-lin, channelling the prophecies of the Eastcity serpents, and racing against time to infiltrate the city's computer networks before they collapse...
"And a man, deKray, whose sudden appearance accompanies a startling sequence of events...
"Set on a world both deadly and fascinating, Memory Seed is a compelling first novel which heralds a powerful new voice in science fiction." [jacket blurb, UK pbk 1996]
"Nature has taken over the Earth. There is one city left. It is populated by women. There are hints of past tampering with genetic engineering and nanotechnology.
"I found the story hard-going and lacking continuity. At one moment you enter a house that has been broken into and looted, but a moment later everything seems back to normal and there is no further mention of this ominous occurence. Throughout the book there are numerous other examples of such discontinuities and inconsistancies." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1997).
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