Collateral Memory

di William Liu (Autore)

William Liu, 2026

Femke Oyelaran collects what people owe. In 2079, a drowned Rotterdam survives behind the Dike, and the Dike was paid for with debt: forty-year tranches written against the lives of the people living behind it. When a borrower falls nineteen months behind, Femke is the one who knocks on the door, opens the recall window and takes the collateral. She is good at the job, because she has never let herself think about what the collateral is. Then she is sent to Lower Charlois to recall a seventy-eight-year-old man who has set out two cups of tea. What she finds in his flooded house is a ledger of a different kind: a record of what Hollanda Mutual, the insurer whose black tower dominates the skyline, has really been doing with the Delta's memories, years and futures. Femke has forty minutes before the window closes, and every hour after that costs her more than she can afford. Collateral Memory is a near-future novel of debt, water and conscience, set in a Netherlands where the sea is held back by contracts as much as concrete. It follows a woman who is very good at an ugly job as she learns who profits from it, who pays for it, and what it takes to stop collecting. For readers of climate fiction, corporate dystopia and character-driven science fiction that asks who owns the future when it has already been mortgaged.

• Autore: William Liu
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: William Liu
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237777802