Phuture Dawn

by Matthew Mather

Phuture Dawn is the first of an epic new trilogy that tells the story of humanity’s slide across the singularity event, the merger of men and machines, but told from a very human point of view. As the story opens, Willy has lost his body, and while losing your body on Atlantis isn't entirely unusual, it does begin to uncover a deeper wickedness that threatens to unravel Cognix's plans rescue the planet using synthetic reality as the Weather Wars rage on. Eight narratives wind their way through twists and turns in this coming brave new world, eventually combining together to paint a compelling vision of the near future in an exciting climax!

466 pages, Paperback

First published December 21, 2011

About the author

Matthew is the million-copy bestselling author of CyberStorm and Darknet, and the hit series Nomad and Atopia Chronicles. He started out his career working at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines, going on to become one of the world's leading members of the cybersecurity community. In between he's worked in a variety of start-ups,everything from computational nanotechnology to electronic health records to weather prediction systems. He spends his time between Montreal and Charlotte, NC.

Reviews

[Mainak Dhar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm writing this review with two hats on- firstly, as an avid reader of sci-fi and fiction novels, and second as an author who predominantly writes in a similar genre. Phuture Dawn was my first exposure to Mr. Mather's work and as a reader, I was left feeling very gratified. For a speculative sci-fi or fantasy novel, what either hooks the reader or totally loses him is the author's ability to convincingly create a fictional world and populate it with convincing characters. If either of those feels contrived, then I as a reader lose interest fast. In Phuture Dawn, the author aces both aspects pretty well. There is a large cast of characters, but I found that enough justice was done to most of them, even the negative ones, to make me as a reader genuinely care about what happened to them. The world the author creates is similarly detailed and this is where my perspective as a writer comes in. As the old cliche goes, `write what you know' and from reading Mr. Mather's bio, he clearly has impeccable credentials and pedigree when it comes to science and technology. That background and expertise really shines through in the fictional world he creates so convincingly. Maybe a PhD in a relevant field can nitpick but to someone like me who is not a science/engineering expert, it seemed very convincing and layered enough to retain interest without becoming overwhelming. The richness of that world he has created no doubt leaves scope for sequels, which I will certainly get around to reading. For a debut novel, this was a very strong showing, and I have no doubt we will all hear much more of this author in the months and years to come.