Droneland
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Glauser Award 2015 - Best German Crime Novel
Lasswitz Award 2015 - Best German SF Novel
Why interview witnesses when all their movements and conversations have already been archived on a hard disk? Why investigate crime scenes when police drones have already photographed them from all possible angles?
A Brussels MP is found murdered near the EU capital. At first, detective Aart van der Westerhuizen is confident he can solve the case quickly using Europol's near-omniscient police computer TEREISIAS. But then he realizes the digital evidence may have been tampered with. Soon Aart becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to shake Europe to its core.
Praise for "Droneland"
A sweeping thriller about our future in the surveillance state . . . since Orwell has aged a little, it was high time for a novel like this. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The scariest thing about this gripping detective story is how plausible the future presented in it seems.
- Technology Review
Brillant and fast-paced, "Droneland" is a treasure trove of imagination, chock-full of futuristic high-tech ideas.
- Les Inrockuptibles
Laura Caton
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Laura Caton was born in California and spent her childhood living across the United States and near Stuttgart, Germany. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 with an MA in German Language and Literature, she moved to New York, where she worked for several years in international and nonprofit theater. In 2016, she was awarded the Gutekunst Prize for Emerging Translators. She currently lives in Pittsburgh.
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