The Ack-Ack Macaque Series

The complete collection of the startling, fast-paced and BSFA Award-winning SF starring a cigar-chomping monkey, nuclear-powered Zeppelins, electronic souls and a battle to avert armageddon.

A new edition in the Solaris Classics selection.

Welcome to Europe in 2058, a place where Britain and France have been united for a century and vast, nuclear-powered Zeppelins carry passengers between Paris, London and New York. When former journalist Victoria Valois starts investigating the murder of her ex-husband, she attracts a motley assortment of unlikely allies, including a surgically upgraded monkey who drinks, smokes and curses, and can even fly a plane!

Collected together here for the first time in one volume, the award-winning Ack-Ack Macaque novels are a gripping examination of what it means to be truly human. And in Ack-Ack Macaque, they introduce us to one of literature’s most unpredictable and exciting heroes.

“Barrels of swashbuckling SF, fizzing with invention and ideas as well as action.”Morning Star