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Paris Adrift

Published by Solaris
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

Hallie moves to Paris to reinvent herself, find a new life, and maybe a new love.

She’s off to a fair start, she’s landed a bartending job at a dive called Millie’s and found new friends in the eccentric crew that runs the place. Then, it gets weird. There's a strange woman who won't leave her alone. Garbled warnings from bizarre creatures disrupt her sleep. She keeps running into a man with a charming smile--a man she should probably steer clear of. And she can't stop falling back in time in Millie's keg room.

Soon, Hallie is caught up in something much bigger than herself—a project that this mystery man needs her to join. But with every trip through time, Hallie loses a little of herself, and each infinitesimal change she makes ripples through Paris, until the future she’s trying to save suddenly looks nothing like what she hoped for…

About The Author

E. J. Swift is the author of speculative fiction novels including The Osiris Project trilogy, a series set in a world radically altered by climate change, and Paris Adrift, a tale of bartenders and time travel in the City of Light. Her novel The Coral Bones was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschies Red Tentacle and the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award for Best Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies and has been longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Solaris (February 6, 2020)
  • Length: 448 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781781087848

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Raves and Reviews

"A high-flying novel of love and peril-sheer page-turning entertainment that hooked me with its wit from the first sentence."

– Helen Marshall

"An effervescent blend of revisionist history, fantasy and science fiction."

– The Washington Post

"As well as being a profound mediation on history and the need to defend democracy, Paris Adrift is also a gorgeous evocation of youth and growing up... a celebration of that particular moment in our lives, when we feel those connections all the more strongly because we know on some level they will come to an end." -- Fantasy Faction

– Fantasy Faction

"Paris Adrift is a different type of time travel book, one I hope to see more of, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys Paris, the fear for the future, and traveling into the unknown. Be sure to check out the other stops on the tour!" -- Utopia State of Mind

– Utopia State of Mind

"Swift (the Osiris Project series) delivers both an unusual take on time travel and solid characters, including a fantastic protagonist."

– Publisher's Weekly

"Paris Adrift is a really cool book. It's Skins meet time travel." -- British Fantasy Society

– British Fantasy Society

"Swift's prose is well crafted, and her characters breathe a sort of gap-year-encounters-larger-than-reality hallucinogenic life: vivid, foreign, and faintly exotic to middle-class English girl Hallie."

– Liz Bourke, Locus

"A glittering novel of time travel that you'll want to devour like a mille-feuille in one single bite. I loved it."

– Lavie Tidhar

"A very enjoyable read." -- Fortean Times

– Fortean Times

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