Techno-Thriller

A novel set in 2039 written by Quantum physicist and broadcaster Al-Khalili, who visualises a plausible apocalypse as Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and if and when it fails altogether, the planet’s surface will be exposed to lethal levels of radiation from space. Super storms wreak havoc and satellite communications fail, an international group of scientists speeds up to develop a device that will save humankind. The catastrophe has a chilling and nail biting authenticity.

Year 20141, our world is under attack from climate changes, ucontrollable mass migration, cyber-terrorism, fragmenting societies and insidious governmental secrecy and paranoia. A young Iranian hacktivist stumbles across the truth, and it becomes a race against time to reactivate the earth’s core using beams of dark matter.

 Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalill, Bantam £16.99., 370 pages.