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London, Guy Fawkes Night. The sky fills with fireworks, the crowds cheer, and somewhere beneath the noise, the city's memory is being rewritten.
When a data engineer stumbles onto evidence of a coordinated mass memory-editing operation, she discovers that the annual celebrations are cover for something far more deliberate: a systematic overwriting of collective recollection, timed to the moment when everyone is looking up. The explosions are not just spectacle. They are synchronised forgetting.
Drawn into the underground network known as the Archive of Sparks, she joins a group of archivists in a race to preserve authentic memories before they are erased for good. But the deeper she goes, the more she must confront an uncomfortable question: how much truth can people actually bear when a more comfortable version of events is on offer?
Gunpowder Saturday is a social thriller about information warfare dressed as patriotic tradition, about the institutions that decide which memories survive and which disappear, and about what it costs to be the person who refuses to forget.
For readers of speculative fiction that sits at the edge of the possible.
When a data engineer stumbles onto evidence of a coordinated mass memory-editing operation, she discovers that the annual celebrations are cover for something far more deliberate: a systematic overwriting of collective recollection, timed to the moment when everyone is looking up. The explosions are not just spectacle. They are synchronised forgetting.
Drawn into the underground network known as the Archive of Sparks, she joins a group of archivists in a race to preserve authentic memories before they are erased for good. But the deeper she goes, the more she must confront an uncomfortable question: how much truth can people actually bear when a more comfortable version of events is on offer?
Gunpowder Saturday is a social thriller about information warfare dressed as patriotic tradition, about the institutions that decide which memories survive and which disappear, and about what it costs to be the person who refuses to forget.
For readers of speculative fiction that sits at the edge of the possible.