Triangulum

From the award-winning writer of 'The Reactive,' 'Triangulum' is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa's recent past and near future - starting from the collapse of the apartheid homeland system in the early 1990s, to the economic corrosion of the 2010s, and on to the looming, large-scale ecological disasters of the 2040s. In 2040, the South African National Space Agency receives a mysterious package containing a memoir and a set of digital recordings from an unnamed woman who claims the world will end in ten years. Assigned to the case, Dr Naomi Buthelezi, a retired professor and science-fiction writer, is hired to investigate the veracity of the materials, and whether or not the woman's claim to have heard from a 'force more powerful than humankind' is genuine.