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A stunning debut SF novel of virtual reality, virtual memory, virtual love… and real genocide.<\/em><\/p>\n

Maya Andreyeva is a “camera”, a reporter with virtual reality broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share.<\/p>\n

And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre.\u00a0 As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world\u2026 and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself.\u00a0 Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal\u2014of your lover, your ideals, and yourself.<\/p>\n

In The Fortunate Fall,<\/em> we hear a new voice so assured and so intimate it seems we must always have known it, and so electrifying we know we have never before heard its like.<\/p>\n

Representation Includes<\/h4>\n

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• White, Russian lesbian protagonist<\/li>\n
• Black-Japanese lesbian love interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  Content Warnings<\/div>

  Homophobic government, with violent punishment for gay people; genocide (graphic depictions of fictional genocide, more distanced discussions of real ones); graphic depictions of torture; violations of privacy, including mental invasion and mind control; animal death; human death; suicide; secret police and police surveillance; unhealthy romantic relationships. <\/div>