The Sudden Appearance of Hope ( 2016) fits Cyberpunk tropes into a picaresque narrative, which tightens into a Paranoid view of Near Future information control this novel won the World Fantasy Award. There are some echoes of David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks ( 2014), though Touch is conspicuously lighter. Webb's second novel as by North, Touch ( 2015), reconfigures some elements of the previous tale, featuring a ghost protagonist able to switch bodies by touch, a power of successive Identity Transfer which engages him for centuries.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August won the John W Campbell Memorial Award. En passant he discovers himself to be one of a secret Pariah Elite society, and is faced with the possibility that in his successive lives he may be creating a sequence of Alternate Worlds. The tale has some resemblance to both Groundhog Day ( 1993) and Kate Atkinson's Life After Life ( 2013), while playing sophisticatedly with some of the conventions of the Young Adult novel: Harry August is born at the end of World War One, lives into adulthood, dies and is reborn, once again in 1919 his initial Amnesia only gradually dissipates in each case, but he gradually transforms his life and his era through this serial Immortality, which may end (or reach a climax) with the End of the World. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August ( 2014) as by Claire North is clearly more ambitious than most of her earlier work. The late Matthew Swift series beginning with The Madness of Angels ( 2008) as by Kate Griffin is again fantasy. The sequence tapers off without climax, and may be incomplete. The Horatio Lyle sequence – beginning with The Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle ( 2006) and ending with The Dream Thief: An Extraordinary Horatio Lyle Adventure ( 2010) – follows its Scientist and police detective protagonist through increasingly complex adventures in a Steampunk Alternate History version of London his various Inventions aid and complicate matters, and Zombie-like creatures appear. (1986- ) UK author who also writes as by Kate Griffin and Claire North, often for the Young Adult market her first works – like the Wizard Laenan Kite sequence beginning with Mirror Dreams ( 2002) – were fantasy.
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