‘Christine Marshall narrates a chilling near-future thriller…The complex plot shifts between three main storylines, but Marshall keeps most of them very clear through her straightforward delivery.’ – AudioFile Magazine

Null States proceeds Campbell Prize finalist Malka Older’s Centenal Routine: the politically-charged science fiction trilogy that started with Infomocracy.

• A Locus Award Finalist for Greatest First Novel

• The publication The Huffington Post known as ‘one of the best literary debuts in latest about Null Areas: Reserve Two of the Centenal Cycle history’

• Named one of the better books of the year with the Washington Post, The Verge, Flavorwire, Kirkus, and Book Riot

The future of democracy is going to implode.

After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy which has guaranteed thirty many years of world peace is fraying in the edges. As the brand new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, realtors of Information throughout the world strive to keep the peace and maintain the moves of data that give food to the new globe order.

In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches programs to create microdemocracy to its legs. In Central Asia, a sprawling battle among archaic state governments threatens to explode into a global problems. And across the world, a shadowy story is growing, threatening to strangle Info using the reins of power.