The Sum of All Things - (The City-States Cycle) by Seb Doubinsky (Paperback)

About the Book

"The highly anticipated final installment in Seb Doubinsky's City-States Cycle is smart, subtle and unputdownable! In New Samarqand, trouble is brewing: The king is very ill, nobody knows who will succeed him and terrorist groups are plaguing the city-state. In the eye of the storm, the National Museum is opening a new wing displaying the magnificent tomb of two Amazon sisters, who fell in battle together. Following parallel lines in this ominous labyrinth, Hokki, the new museum director, Ali the police commissioner, Kassandra, the poet, Thomas, the used-books seller and Vita, the secret agent from Planet X try to keep the pieces together and fight against the forces of chaos threatening their very existence."--

Book Synopsis

A city on the brink, a battle for its soul.

In New Samarqand, the king is dying, and terrorist groups are rising. As the National Museum prepares to unveil its Amazon sisters' tomb, a web of intrigue tightens around the city.

Enter Hokki, the museum director; Ali, the police commissioner; Kassandra, the poet; Thomas, the bookseller; and Vita, the secret agent. In this final installment of the City-States Cycle, they must navigate a labyrinth of power, corruption, and betrayal to save their world.

For readers of speculative fiction, dystopian novels, and political thrillers, The Sum of All Things is a smart, subtle, and unputdownable exploration of identity, resistance, and the forces that shape our reality.

Review Quotes

"An intricately woven plot about saving Earth's freedom with disparate, personable characters...a deftly packed & poetic novel you'll be glad you picked up." --Independent Book Review

"Doubinsky straddles a challenging line of action and intellect, emerging with a rigorous portrait of a turbulent city that's sure to please series fans." --Publishers Weekly

"The Sum of All Things, the latest exploration of The City-States Cycle, is at heart a tense noir that takes the reader on a cool, cerebral ride." --Jordan A. Rothacker, author of The Shrieking of Nothing

"The Sum of All Things reads like A Scanner Darkly with the pace Doubinsky pulp style. ... Recommended to fans of Philip K. Dick or a drug-fueled series of experiments, love, political antics and pulp Sci-fi." --Donald Armfield, author of From The Belly Of The Goat

"In Seb Doubinsky's eponymous volume--the lines between poetry, prose poetry, flash fiction and very short fiction are erased giving rise to multiple tonal registers. ... readers will be amply, unusually and uniquely rewarded." --Ben Arzate, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saying Goodbye

"Doubinsky mixes textures of political intrigue, drug hallucination, magic and mythical powers with a literary palette knife into a spellbinding narrative reminiscent of the best of Philip K. Dick, John Shirley and William Gibson. Not to be missed." --Alex S. Johnson, editor of Hand of Doom: A Literary Tribute to Black Sabbath

"A staccato, enigmatic, deceptively philosophical book that will have readers rushing back to the beginning of the City-States experience." --Kurt Baumeister, author of Twilight of the Gods

"Seb Doubinsky charmingly astounds in this installment of the City-States series and its hallucinogenic Synth, a perilous drug that shifts culture, bends reality." --Eugen Bacon, Aurealis Magazine

About the Author

eb Doubinsky is a bilingual writer born in Paris in 1963. His novels, all set in a dystopian universe revolving around competing cities-states, have been published in the UK and in the USA. He currently lives with his family in Aarhus, Denmark, where he teaches at the university.