num_pages: 310
description: Stark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn’t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw. Then there’s Red – get off at Fuck Station Zero if you want to see a tactical nuclear battle recreated as a sales demonstration.Stark has friends in Red, which is just as well because Something is about to happen. And when a Something happens it’s no good chanting ‘Duck and cover’ while cowering in a corner, because a Something is always from the past, Stark’s past, and it won’t go away until you face it full on.
language: English
title: Only Forward
titlecomplete: Only Forward
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Cyberpunk, Book Club, Horror, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 5702
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Philip K. Dick Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel (August Derleth Award)
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers