Book description
There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know - she was
born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union,
revolution is brewing. Its organisers need a safe place to meet, and
where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who
works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that
almost seems made for the job: its original inspiration came from The
Krassniad - an epic tale, based on Krassnian folklore, concocted by
Lucy's mother who studied there in the 1980s.
As Lucy digs up details about her birthplace to slot into the game,
she finds her interest in the open secrets of her family's past - and
the darker secrets of Krassnia's - has not gone unnoticed. When a
Russian-Georgian border war breaks out, Lucy has to move fast - and
return to Krassnia herself, to the heart of the mountain that holds
Krassnia's darkest and oldest secret. But nothing Lucy has discovered
can possibly prepare her for the crucial role she is destined to play
in The Restoration Game . . .
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has
worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full-time.
