Backup Drives

A near-future science fiction novel from the author of The Dream of the White Elephant and The Art of the Stab

Emily Adaline Cotchin has only just arrived at university for the start of her graduate studies when she is both summoned and sent back home to Iowa, to collect a bequest and deliver a message. Where she finds that the assurances she was given, that neither task will trouble her unduly nor take much of her time, prove to be overly optimistic.

Because the next-door neighbor, her advi...