William Gibson - Agency (Penguin Books)

A thrilling dystopian novel imagining a world where Trump lost the election, from the master of science fictionSan Francisco, 2017. In an alternate time track, Hillary Clinton won the election and Donald Trump's political ambitions were thwarted.London, 22nd century.

Decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 per cent of humanity. A shadowy start-up hires a young woman named Verity to test a new product: a 'cross-platform personal avatar' that was developed aby the military as a form of artificial intelligence.Meanwhile, characters in the distant future are using technological time travel to interfere with the election unfolding in 2017...'One of our greatest science-fiction writers' New York Times