When Renate Hofer falls into a water tank that cleans the ventilation of a huge data storage facility, she not only fears for her life, but also has an epiphany: she will build a machine unlike any that has ever been built before to overcome the computer age. Her plan takes shape in the world as we know it - a pandemic has raged, trust in language is waning, money is eating away at justice. To implement it, Renate recruits the bravest and smartest from the fields of physics and art, linguistic research and financial trickery, a whole fucking army: Kerstin Waldmann, Doro Coppe, Xiasong Zhao, Vexus Texas and more. With them, she builds a new world out of the tiny vortices that are called like this novel: Skyrmions.
Thriller, cabinet of wonders and journey into the unknown, as rich in characters and action as a futuristic series: Skyrmions asks us how we can liberate advanced technology for a better global society.
“Dietmar Dath is the greatest contemporary author we have, because he knows that the present can only be understood from the future.” – Jens Balzer
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Dietmar Dath, born in 1970, is an author, journalist and translator. He has written numerous novels and essays that deal with the technical foundations of our society in literary terms. Previoulsy published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin: his comprehensive examination of science fiction under the title Never Story (2019) and the novel Gentzen or Cleaning Up Drunk (2021) about the logician of the same name.
