A novel.
In 2156, stage-fright-stricken Vaal Douglas finds fame and fortune in the scud metal band The Revenants. He plays in the band with his childhood friend, Arine Jeffstarâ€"of the extremely wealthy, and massively influential Jeffstar family. But it seems like Vaal’s nervous disposition might be at an end when he meets three beautiful cousins, and their recently ‘reanimated’ uncle.
Meanwhile, back in 2063, brilliant scientist Keran Connor works for the world-engulfing, and notorious, entrepreneur Steven Arneson where she works on the ‘reanimation’ programme, a project designed to bring the dead back to life as ‘reanimations’ so as to console the living. But she finds herself frustrated as the project is put on the backburner and she’s delegated to a programme much further back from the frontiers of scientific discovery.
In the Year 2292 the reanimations now plague the planet and have ousted the last dregs of mankind to a colony on the Moon. Admiral Andrus Gnut counts the cost of thousands of humans lives lost in the latest attempt to win back Earth and sees no way forward. And it seems that, for once and for all, humankind is truly lost.
Necropolis jumps between three strands of time tracking mankind’s attempts first to straddle the frontiers of scientific discovery and then to, belatedly, try to reel it back in, even after all appears to be lost.
But perhaps, after all, they will be able to reconcile: ‘a world for the living . . . and the dead.’
