LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
So smart and provocative it hurts, this fabulously unique debut is is one to place at the top of your reading lists. The government uses a countrywide typeface in order to manipulate and control people, anyone who is allergic to HellSans is sure to suffer in agony and are cast out. When a government friendly CEO falls ill and meets a Dr who has found a cure for the allergy, they find themselves trying to keep one step ahead of the people tasked with hunting them down. Debut author Ever Dundas hits this one out of the park and I feel that publisher Angry Robot were the perfect fit for HellSans. I was immediately hooked and totally invested in this world. I didn’t hesitate, or have to stop and think, I just believed. When you step in, you can choose in which order to read the first two parts where Jane and Icho narrate their own story, before launching into part three. I decided to read Icho first, and wonder how my thoughts on the two characters would have altered if I had started with Jane. I thought the ending was perfect, and came away with a real reading buzz echoing through my entire body. HellSans has been awarded a LoveReading Star Book, it is just so original and readable as it shouts and rails against some of the issues faced in society. A massive thumbs up from me for this fabulously original book.
Liz Robinson
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HellSans Synopsis
HellSans is set in a fictional UK, where HellSans is a ubiquitous typeface, enforced by the government in all communications and in all public spaces. It is the ultimate control device. The majority of the population experience bliss when they see the typeface, but there’s a minority who are allergic to it. The HellSans Allergic (HSAs) are persecuted, and live on the streets or in a ghetto on the outskirts of the capital city.
Jane Ward, CEO of the company that manufactures the Inex (a cyborg doll-like creature that has replaced the smart phone as the essential aid and accessory) has everything: fame and fortune, until she falls ill with the allergy and becomes embroiled in the government’s internal power struggles. She loses her job and her wealth, ending up in the ghetto until she is rescued by Dr Icho Smith.
Icho is a scientist who has developed a cure for the allergy, but she is on the run from the government and the Seraphs (the ghetto ‘terrorist’ group), who all have their own agenda for the cure. Jane and Icho work together, aiming to expose government corruption and bring the cure to the HSAs.
HellSans is written in three parts. Parts one and two can be read in either order which provides a unique approach to the perspectives of the haves and have-nots in the run-up to the revolutionary conclusion.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781915202215 |
| Publication date: |
11th October 2022 |
| Author: |
Ever Dundas |
| Publisher: |
Angry Robot an imprint of Watkins Media |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
456 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Science Fiction
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Press Reviews
Ever Dundas Press Reviews
the best debut fiction by a Scottish author since 2012
Terrific... Goblin brims throughout with reckless joy.
Enthralling... a captivating debut.
Speculative fiction at its best: political, fearless, smart, badass. To put it down is unthinkable, you care about everything and everyone all the time.
a dark, brilliantly imagined world.
A dark and clever sci-fi social satire.
Clever, terrifying, and full of love and rage - I'm deeply jealous.
I was enraged, I was inspired - I want to read every word that Ever Dundas writes.
