Read By: Andrew Seear
Squire Quartet series book 4

Aldiss' latest is the final volume of his Squire quartet, a series of
loosely interconnected novels following many characters through a twenty-first--
century landscape of insidious new technology and international political
turmoil. Here, the protagonist is Roy Burnell, a British architectural
expert whose eclectic researches take him across the shifting borders
of a war-torn former Soviet Union. While vacationing in Budapest, Burnell
becomes the prey of underground neurosurgeons who skillfully steal and
edit his memories to sell on the black market, where the latest entertainment
craze involves experiencing selected events from other people's lives.
With 10 years of his life now missing, Burnell's only choice is to continue
working while tracking down his stolen memories, the loss of which,
he discovers to his surprise, has as many benefits as drawbacks. Writing
with his usual command of language and his uniquely inventive perspective
on humanity's all-too-probable future, Aldiss demonstrates once again
why his voice is one of the most respected in science fiction.

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