In the future mankind travels through space A vast network of spatial gates. A ship can be sent hurtling hundreds of light years in minutes. Despite the routine nature of deep space travel, things don't always go so smoothly. Lost in the deepest depths of space, the Thunder Child has become the stuff of legends and deep space ghost stories. Whispers spoken in the night to scare space travellers. When a signal is detected in a far off uninhabited and isolated solar system, believed to be coming from the Thunder Child, the Horizon and her crew are tasked to investigate its disappearance and...

In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great again.

Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past. Walker not only explains Vladimir Putin's goals and the government's official manipulations of history, but also...