Timothy Sonderhuesken at Droemer has acquired German rights to Chris Beckett’s debut The Holy Machine from Vanessa Kerr at Grove Atlantic UK. Agent John Jarrold originally sold world rights to Nic Cheetham at Grove Atlantic’s Corvus imprint for this book and Dark Eden, which will be published in the UK early in 2012.
Sonderhuesken said: “The opening sentences of The Holy Machine captivated me and I literally could not put the book down before I finished it. But even then the characters would not leave me alone, and I spent a whole week discussing the book with everybody that I met. Chris Beckett has a marvelous way of describing the birth of a machine’s consciousness, and the shocking moment when a scared woman finally realizes that a wonderful life is not the salvation she is longing for. This upmarket Dystopian Fiction appeals to my heart and my brain alike, and I look forward very much to introducing Chris Beckett to the German audience and also reading his next book.”
Droemer has scheduled publication for spring 2012.
Related articles previously published on SFScope:Chris Beckett resells The Holy Machine to Corvus, along with a new novel (18 September 2009)