Book description
Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has
advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that,
taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an
unborn child. Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four-year-old, is
expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is
known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband
in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of
individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn
child? A plausible and original novel with sinister echoes of 1984 and
Brave New World. A disturbingly real socialist dystopia GUARDIAN This
near-future sci-fi novel could almost be a sequel to George Orwell's
1984 - 2084, perhaps THE SUN Intrusion is a finely-tuned, in-your-face
argument of a novel ... MacLeod will push your buttons - and make you
think SFX - 4. 5 stars A twistedly clever, frighteningly plausible
dystopian glimpse Iain M. Banks A haunting, gripping story of
resistance, terror, and an all-consuming state that commits its
atrocities with the best of intentions Cory Doctorow It's all so close
to the bone it's almost painful... Intrusion is a rather frightening
vision of the road we are taking with our smoking bans and our obesity
epidemics and our CCTVs BOOKBAG. CO. UK Since graduating from Glasgow
University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has worked as a computer analyst in
Edinburgh. He now writes full-time.
