Imagine a world where there are no birds singing. There are no warm-blooded creatures at all and few people—the human population has been decimated. The First World Error has seen to that. That world is Downside, a dystopian parallel universe which split from Upside in 1990.
Beware the POPs; they watch every move you make and can kill in seconds. Part of an all-encompassing system that is keeping tabs on every individual to make sure they toe the line. Anyone who deviates will pay the price.
2040 tells the enthralling tale of events from 1990 to 2040. A wormhole between the worlds leads Upside scientists to discover the existence of Downside; Johnson is the first to cross over, putting himself in the firing line while he infiltrates the alien society in a bid to discover its sinister underlying secrets.
Graham Tottle is a Cambridge trained historian and computer scientist. He is an expert who has worked in twenty countries, often hotspots and war zones, at the leading edge of IT, for the World Bank and UN agencies since the seventies. He lives in Llanbedr, West Wales.
