Duncan Falconer is a former SBS operative turned thriller writer. General Fiction
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Cloud Atlas combines the stories of six individuals to create a masterful whole: the morality and ambitions of a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation.Their lives echo and impact on each other's stories down the corridor of history and point to a terrifying vision of the world’s future, which challenges our ability to shape not only our destiny but that of those that will come after us.
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