Synopses & Reviews
Set primarily in the present, with intriguing flashbacks to the 1800s, In The Country Of The Blind concerns a small group of American idealists who manage to actually complete Babbage's Analytical Engine and use it to develop mathematical models that chart the likely course to their liking and by the 1900s they are the secret masters of the world. Then Sarah Beaumont stumbles across their secret and into a deadly maze of conspiracies.
Originally published in the 1980s as a paperback original, Michael Flynn's first novel has been updated for this edition, which also features as a new appendix, his article, originally published in Analog, about the novel's underlying ideas.
Review
"A fascinating read, I found it impossible to put down.”--
SF Review"Fine speculative science fiction and a suspenseful thriller. It will pull you in, and , more importantly, it will make you think."--Aboriginal SF
Synopsis
In the nineteenth century, a small group of American idealists managed to actually build Charles Babbages Analytical Engine and use it to develop Cliology, mathematical models that could chart the likely course of the future. Soon they were working to alter historys course as they thought best. By our own time, the Society has become the secret master of the world. But no secret can be kept forever, at least not without drastic measures. When her plans for some historic real estate lead developer and ex-reporter Sarah Beaumont to stumble across the Societys existence, its just the first step into a baffling and deadly maze of conspiracies.
About the Author
Michael Flynn is an Analog magazine alumnus whose fiction now appears regularly in all the major SF magazines. His major work of the 1990s was the Firestar series of novels.