Angry Robot lands sci-fi and crime fiction crossover from Brooke and Brown

Angry Robot has landed a science fiction and crime fiction crossover novel from Keith Brooke and Eric Brown. 

Commissioning editor at large Simon Spanton acquired world English and audio rights to Wormhole from John Jarrold at the John Jarrold Literary Agency. It will publish on 22nd November. 

The publisher described the novel as “a gripping cautionary tale within a corporate conspiracy”. 

Spanton said: "Keith and Eric have, individually and together, long been producing exciting, yet thoughtful and carefully crafted SF. So to have the opportunity to publish a new book written by them in tandem is a delight. Wormhole is a twisty interstellar journey through a maze of crime and deceit that grabbed me from the first. As billionaires and corporations come to dominate our efforts to explore beyond Earth it’s also a very apposite SF novel.” 

Brooke and Brown added: “We’ve collaborated on short fiction for many years, but this is the first full-length novel we’ve produced together. We each know exactly how the other writes, so we can work seamlessly together — but also we manage to continually surprise each other so that any collaboration is unlike anything we could write individually.”