Launch of The Restoration Game

Pleasance Theatre
60 Pleasance, Edinburgh
6.30pm
Free but ticketed

There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know - she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organisers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: a game inspired by The Krassniad, an epic folk tale concocted by Lucy's mother Amanda, who studied there in the 1980s. Lucy knows Amanda is a spook. She knows her great-grandmother Eugenie also visited the country in the '30s, and met the man who originally collected Krassnian folklore, and who perished in Stalin's terror. As Lucy digs up details about her birthplace to slot into the game, she finds the open secrets of her family's past, the darker secrets of Krassnia's past - and hints about the crucial role she is destined to play in The Restoration Game...

The Restoration Game is the compelling new near-future thriller from the award-winning author of The Execution Channel and The Night Sessions. Born on the Isle of Lewis, Ken MacLeod is one of Scotland's leading Science Fiction authors, a contemporary of Iain M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds and Charles Stross.

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  There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know - she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organisers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game?

In the second part of the evening Ken MacLeod will be joined by a panel of fellow writers to discuss current issues in Science Fiction writing. So far confirmed for the panel are author Charlie Stross and author, editor and critic Andrew J. Wilson.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell Bookshop, 53 – 59 South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1YS. For more information, or to reserve tickets, please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk